Vigil/Human Sex Differences in Expression of Emotion: BBS Call for Commentators

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This unedited draft has been prepared only for potential commentators who wish to nominate themselves for formal commentary invitation. Please DO NOT write a commentary until you receive a formal invitation. If you are invited to submit a commentary, a copyedited, corrected version of this paper will be posted in the invitation letter. The commentary invitation list is compiled by the Editors so as to balance proposals, areas of expertise, and frequency of prior commentaries in BBS. TITLE: A Socio-Relational Framework of Sex Differences in the Expression of Emotion AUTHORS: Jacob Miguel Vigil ABSTRACT: Despite a staggering body of research demonstrating sex differences in expressed emotion, very few theoretical models (neither evolutionary nor nonevolutionary) offer a critical examination of the adaptive nature of such differences. From the perspective of a socio-relational framework, emotive behaviors evolved to facilitate the motivation to either exploit or avert specific types of relationships, and do so by advertising the two most parsimonious properties of reciprocity potential, or perceived attractiveness as a prospective social partner. These are the individual's (a) perceived capacity or ability to provide expedient resources or to inflict immediate harm onto others, and their (b) perceived trustworthiness or probability of actually reciprocating altruism (Vigil, 2007). Depending on the unique social demands and relational constraints that each sex evolved, individuals should be sensitive to advertise "capacity" and "trustworthiness" cues through selective displays of dominant vs. submissive and masculine vs. feminine emotive behaviors, respectively. In this article, I introduce the basic theoretical assumptions and hypotheses of the framework, and show how the models provide a solid scaffold to begin to interpret common sex differences in the emotional development literature. I conclude by discussing how the framework can be used to predict condition- and situation-based variation in mood and other forms of expressive behaviors. KEYWORDS: emotion, evolutionary psychology, femininity, masculinity, mood, motivation, nonverbal behaviors, sex differences, social behaviors, social cognition FULL TEXT: http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Vigil-02212008/Referees/ ================================================================== ================================================================== Instructions for BBS Associate Membership Commentators must be BBS Associates, or suggested by a BBS Associate. 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