Monday, July 17, 2006
not surprising: men act tough around women
men withstand more pain when it is applied by a woman:
no result, in either direction, was shown in female subjects.
When the men were tested by a male researcher dressed in jeans and a T-shirt they were able to withstand nearly a third more pain than their female counterparts.this study does not indicate whether subjective valuation of pain changed via some neural or hormonal mechanism, or whether the male subjects were simply lying to act "tough." i also wonder how this relates to the researcher's earlier work on low symptom report rates among males.
But when the volunteers were tested by a 21-year-old female dressed in a skirt and high heels "to emphasis her gender role", the men reported pain thresholds much higher than in the tests with the male researcher.
no result, in either direction, was shown in female subjects.
Labels: misc. psych, well being
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