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Women More In Tune With Feelings Than Men

Recent research done in the United States with 97 married and unmarried couples between the ages of 18 and 46 indicates that women are better at describing their feelings and those of their romantic counterparts than men.

The study was conducted by graduate student Dana Atzil Slonim and Dr. Orya Tishby of the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in cooperation with Prof. Jacques Barber and Dr. Carol Foltz from the University of Pennsylvania.

Some results of the questionnaire that the couples answered indicated that many couples, especially married ones, were on the same page when it comes to the desire to avoid conflict and they shared similar attitudes toward love and caring for one another. However, there was a low-level of agreement on other issues. For instance, men rated women as being much more apprehensive about being abandoned than the women rated themselves and women rated the men as being less apprehensive about being abandoned than the men rated themselves. Another difference is that the women rated the men as more independent than the men felt about themselves, while the men rated the women as more fearful and less interested in sex than the women rated themselves.


“Both sexes tend to lean on stereotypes in those areas that are more emotional, such as independence, the fear of being abandoned, fears in general and sexuality. In these areas, it would seem, the partners are not aware of the true thoughts and desires of the other,” the researchers say, who conclude on this basis that “this shows the great importance of open communication — especially in emotionally-laden topics — as a tool for reducing conflicts and improving the quality of couples’ lives.”

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