How Male and Female Literary Authors Write About Affect Across Cultures and Over Historical Periods.

ABSTRACT: A wealth of literature suggests the existence of sex differences in how emotions are experienced, recognized, expressed, and regulated. However, to what extent these differences result from the put in place of stereotypes and social rules is still a matter of debate. Literature is an essential cultural institution, a transposition of the social life of people but also of their intimate affective experiences, which can serve to address questions of psychological relevance. Here, we created a large corpus of literary fiction enriched by authors' metadata to measure the extent to which culture influences how men and women write about emotion. Our results show that even though before the twenty-first century and across 116 countries women more than men have written about affect, starting from

SUBMITTER: Lettieri G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10751284 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature