streangth of emotion

It most certainly does if you are under a constant barrage of strong negative emotions. In What the Bleep Do We Know, it was proposed that the wearing down of the body (aging) is caused by the shrinking number of protein receptors in cells. Skin Elasticity, for example, is regulated by protiens and if enough of the protiens cannot get to the cells b/c there are simply not enough receptors, then the skin will become flabby. Maybe the solution to anti-aging is not in keeping a good diet, but rather in making sure your body doesnt loose the receptor sites. The film also talked about how emotions affect the receptor sites and therefore all the cells in the body.

I think men die earlier than women b/c they react to stress in a more drastic way than women. Basically what you said

 

You could be on to something . I think the mind is a very powerful thing, and emotions are a very important part of it. Men have just as many emotions, but seem less likely to seek help and less likely to express their emotions.

 

emotions, i see as a collection of spontanous judgments compiled (seen as) in one reaction, so powerful to change the body in different ways. the brain indeed is powerful.

i had two dogs when i was in my youth, the two were rather close. just as you described the couples senario, the latter dog followed almost the exact response. she become so depressed she stopped eating for months and slowly started to die. my rents at the time didnt want her to suffer any longer, so you probably know the rest.

 

I don't think men experience emotions 10 times harder than women... otherwise men would be weaping their eyes out at the end of the movie Titanic, but when I saw that movie there were no dudes in the theater crying.

I don't think women or men are more emotional, I think they just express their emotions differently. Studies have shown that women are more into bonding/cooperation/group-thinking and men are more into solidarity/independance/single-opinion-reasoning, so perhaps it only appears that women are more emotional because their socially programmed to be such, where men are socially programmed to hold everything in and not show weakness.

 

^ good point

 

Correct.

I've never heard that, but "ten times" is certainly an exaggeration.

Females outlive males in most species because females are generally more important* than males to the survival of offspring. A male's most important duty is fertilizing the egg which can be done in a few minutes. A female's most important duty is birthing the child, which requires nine months. A males second most important duty is helping provide food for the child and the nursing mother. A female's second most important duty is actually nursing the child. While a mother might--with difficulty--be able to find food without a man, a father could not nurse a baby under any circumstances. Because the mother is essential, the male evolved aggressive behavior (which Digit may have oversimplified as generally more intense emotions) to protect her, and this behavior puts him in situations that can cause early death. Even today when we don't face angry leopards or rival tribes men commit--and are victims of--many more violent crimes than women. And, as discussed earlier, the physical toll of aggressive emotions could contribute to men's shorter lifespans.

*I'm not making this up; I've read about it in biology and anthropology courses. I made it a little simpler than it actually is, but hopefully you get the idea.