“…Women also report greater affect intensity than men; they are more emotionally expressive than men (Geuens & De Pelsmacker, 2002;Larsen & Diener, 1987). These differences may be due to biological reasons or cultural expectations, given that the stereotype of women as more affective and sentimental and of men as emotionally stable (Natividade et al, 2014) can impact how people report their affect (Grossman & Wood, 1993). Even so, there are numerous complexities involved in the matter, and it is important to consider that, depending on the various biological, individual, and environmental factors, differences in affect may be more or less apparent (Batz & Tay, 2018).…”