Everybody gets mad, but women may be better at cooling off By Kathleen Kelleher Los Angeles Times Syndicate Modern psychology holds that women are the more emotional of the sexes, experiencing deeper and more frequent feelings of sadness, depression and happiness.
Anger is the exception.
Men, research suggests, are quicker to anger and more likely to stay mad than women. New research may offer some clues about such sex differences, according to studies published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and conducted by State University of New York at Buffalo psychologist Cheryl L. Rusting and University of Michigan psychologist Susan Nolen-Hoeksema. Subjects who dwelt on their anger got madder while those who distracted themselves cooled off. The study found that the women were better at cooling off. Furthermore, cooling off is healthy.