The Messenger Matters: Invalidating Remarks From Men Provoke a More Negative Emotional Reaction Than Do Remarks From Women
| Autor: | Danielle M. Weber, Nathaniel R. Herr |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Adult
Male genetic structures Adolescent Emotions Psychological intervention 050109 social psychology Interpersonal communication behavioral disciplines and activities Developmental psychology Interpersonal relationship Young Adult Sex Factors Sex factors Emotional reaction parasitic diseases Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Interpersonal Relations Young adult Interpersonal interaction General Psychology Communication 05 social sciences 050301 education body regions Female Psychology 0503 education psychological phenomena and processes Dyad |
| Zdroj: | Psychological reports. 122(1) |
| ISSN: | 1558-691X |
| Popis: | Despite negative consequences of emotional invalidation, research has not examined the effect of gender on responses to validation or invalidation or how an invalidating comment from a male versus a female confederate may influence affective responses. We used a two-study quasi-experimental design to examine variables that influence the emotions of individuals validated or invalidated for their emotions. Male and female undergraduates received either validating or invalidating remarks from a gender-ambiguous confederate (Study 1) or invalidating remarks from either a male or female confederate (Study 2). Results showed that invalidation from a gender-ambiguous confederate produced more negative emotional reactions than validation regardless of participants’ gender. Furthermore, being invalidated by a man rather than by a woman provoked a specifically more negative emotional response. Interpersonal interventions should explore ways to reduce invalidation and particularly strive to mitigate the effects of invalidation from men, whose criticisms may provoke heightened negative responses from others. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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