Emotions, no matter how hard you try, you cannot control your emotions, only attempt to hide them. Emotions influence every aspect of our lives, what we do, what we say, how we behave and et cetera. All of our emotions, from happiness to sadness are influenced by several factors, just as our lives are influenced by our emotions (Gelinas, Emotions 35). The belief that women are more emotional than men is one of the most common findings in gender stereotype research (e.g., Broverman, Vogel, Brovernman, Clarkson & Rosenkrantz, 1972; Widiger & Settle, 1987). Past research has documented that although men and women do not differ greatly in the number of undesirable life events they experience, women are significantly more affected emotionally than men (Kessler, 19....). Women are thought to experience more frequent and more profound emotions, where as men are thought to be emotionally inexpressive and to have less intense emotional experiences. In this experiment, stereotyped belief s about experience and expression were studied using ten different emotions: fear, pride, sadness, anger, happiness, guilt, irritability, shame, and worry. In this paper, I attempt to shed light upon two of these emotions, guilt and pride.
             Previous research has documented that specific emotions are differentially associated with women and men. For example, guilt is stereotypically displayed more by females than males, where as, males generally consistently exceed females on emotions, such as pride (Brody & Hall, 1993). Findings, however, suggest that emotionality stereotypes do vary with the age of the target person. For example, Fabes and Martin (1991) found evidence that gender-emotion associations tend to be stronger for adult targets than for children. They argue that the stereotype of men as unemotional is more accurate for adult targets than for child targets because males learn to control their emotions, as they get older. Geer and Shields (1...