one example of using a behavioral study was a 2011 study published in the journal "sex roles" by researchers matthew j. hertenstein and dacher keltner. the study found that within a behavioral experiment study of 212 participants, women shared more emotions, felt more prosocial emotions and communicated much more happiness levels in one on one dyadic interaction. results also found that 79% of female decoders accurately identified male emotions and 96% accurately identified female emotions (both "p"s < .01). for male decoders, 70% ("p" = .052) correctly identified male encoders and 81% ("p" < .01) correctly identified female encoded emotions. results conformed with findings from past literature.