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" Gender stereotypes portray women as being significantly more sensitive and emotional than men, but how much truth is there in this? Doctors from the University of Basel in Switzerland have been exploring the science behind this concept, finding that there is in fact evidence to support the theory that females are more emotional than males. To reach this conclusion, 3,398 participants from four sub-trials were recruited, with the individuals required to take part in an image recall test. Both males and females were exposed to a series of pictures designed to invoke a range of emotions - some were positive, some negative and some neutral. After monitoring the reactions of the test subjects, the researchers asked them to recall what they had seen from memory, finding that women were more likely to be able to remember negative images than their male counterparts, suggesting that they found this content more emotionally stimulating. What&amp;#039;s more, female participants could also recall a greater number of positive images than the men, which somewhat surprised the study authors. This indicates that women are much more emotional than men, regardless of whether the information they are exposed to is of a positive or negative nature. In terms of the neutral images, there were no significant variations between the reactions of the different genders. Co-author of the study Dr Klara Spalek commented: &amp;#039;This result would support the common belief that women are more emotionally expressive than men.&amp;#039; Dr Annette Milnik, who also contributed to the paper, added: &amp;#039;This would suggest that gender-dependent differences in emotional processing and memory are due to different mechanisms.&amp;#039; It is hoped that the findings of this investigation will eventually lead to the development of new treatments for individuals who are experiencing memory problems, which is the primary aim of a wider study taking place at the Swiss university, led by Professor Dominique de Quervain and Professor Andreas Papassotiropoulos. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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