He’s Angry, She’s PMSing

Newsweek posted a study yesterday about how people perceive emotions based on the sex of the individual. The study found that both men and women assume that men are emotional due to context (ex-someone cut him off in traffic, therefore he’s mad). On the other hand, people attribute women’s emotions to her disposition (ex: she’s upset because she’s just an emotional person). Sharon Begley (author of the Newsweek piece) explains that these perceptions have little scientific evidence to support them. Since people believe that women are more emotional, they make their assumptions about that belief. As she correctly explains, "What we believe is what we see."