Evening Star Newspaper, December 9, 1934, Page 89

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, DECEMBER 9, 1934. WOMEN ScArRe More Easily 7%» MEN . 4 sa SIGN of STRENGTH Here are things you didn't know about the emotions and " how they differ in the sexes, and the significance of it all *A display of emotion is not necessarily & signal of failure o meet & situation.” BY MARJORIE VAN DE 'WATER. T IS late at night. You are awakened in . others, however. . If you are a woman, .you.are probe .| ISING & day-by-day record of how his sub- mreltmdmtadmthereumm situations of life; not the fictitious of synthetic’ scares of the laboratory, Dr. Stratton has made .an snalysis disclosing. what factors are associ- -ated with fear and anger. Sex 1s one of these factors. “The frequent opinion that women are more emotional than men is ,” -he said, in reporting some.of his conclusions in the Amer- .., ~mntu.thmwhlchmmentomfllnp- Is this greater tendency of women to “fiy off the handle,” to become angry, or to tremble with fright over some disturbing incident in- dicative of her general weakness? ' Dr. Stratton - disagrees declaring with seme psychologists by that it -is not. - Rather ¢ is-a sign of strength. A display ‘of emotion is not- neccessarily a signal of: failure to meet a situstion; emotion of women to_quicker anger and fesr is not: . - "L mflmukflmm.itnflafi':mh# dicates. He is not different, in either %w.qum.mmm- {HL giEEEE; il f ; ,Egziila if | il (FH Fs¥ z.g 4 g g. H i 3 i t fes ! i el Js i i i F : £ .§ s I i Egt i i it i : : | .;g 'E?&{g fi] i : | éf g, i i ! u i i s | il fh m i § 5 I o3 i '} I g | i i d I HLRE ] ity &‘EE‘ 3 g ; i - rible iIn wrath” you may be. ) “It is late at night...You hear faint sounds as though some one was moving about steolthily...Do you have a shivery feeling of fear?” pared the anger and fear reactions of 1,000 unf- ty students with certain of their physical " Is red hair the flaming signal of & violent temper? Hair does have a definite though relationship to tehdency to anger, Dr. found. But it is the dark-hatred pere has the most intense anger, 3 you_would like to give yourself a - - score on anger, and find out just how “tes- Watch for the following ‘situations as they may come wp in equal to the whole State of Missouri, mare than 43,000,000 acres being swept by flames. '~-mmm-mamww land of the country wag burned over, but, the " ‘pescentage of protected land burned was at & burned - , SES S e T PE L