Who is more sensitive male or female?

In numerous studies females score higher than males in standard tests of emotion recognition, social sensitivity and empathy. Neuroimaging studies have investigated these findings further and discovered that females utilise more areas of the brain containing mirror neurons than males when they process emotions.
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Which gender is more emotional male or female?

Research has suggested that women express emotions more frequently than men on average. Multiple researchers have found that women cry more frequently, and for longer durations than men at similar ages. The gender differences appear to peak in the most fertile years.
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Which gender is more sensitive touch?

Women are more sensitive to touch than men, but not because of their gender, according to Peter and his colleagues of McMaster University in Toronto, Canada. It seems that this observed difference is not an effect of age, but an effect of size.
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Are women's breasts sensitive?

The female breast is, in general, not sensitive before puberty, sensitive after puberty (especially during pregnancy) and again slightly less sensitive after menopause, although sensitivity is never wholly lost.
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Why do girls cry more than boys?

A study from 2012 found that women have 60 percent more prolactin, which is a reproductive hormone that stimulates the production of milk in women after childbirth, than the average male. Emotional tears are especially high in prolactin, which could explain why women cry more often than men.
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What makes a woman sensitive?

Hormones may play a role in women having more pain sensitivity. In addition, women have greater nerve density (more nerves in a given area of the body)—which may cause women to feel pain more severely than men. In addition, women's psychological experience of pain differs from men's in certain ways.
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Is it weak for a man to cry?

A person who can cry is actually a strong person despite what others perceive. Crying is not a gender-based emotion. Tears do not say that “We will not drop down your eyes because you are a man, and men don't cry”.
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Who cries more baby boys or girls?

Researchers believe boys and girls cry at about the same rates until they reach adolescence. As testosterone levels ramp up in boys, their amount of crying plummets. As estrogen levels rise in girls, however, their crying increases.
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What happens when a woman cries?

Crying for long periods of time releases oxytocin and endogenous opioids, otherwise known as endorphins. These feel-good chemicals can help ease both physical and emotional pain. Once the endorphins are released, your body may go into somewhat of a numb stage. Oxytocin can give you a sense of calm or well-being.
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Should you sleep in a bra?

There's nothing wrong with wearing a bra while you sleep if that's what you're comfortable with. Sleeping in a bra will not make a girl's breasts perkier or prevent them from getting saggy. And it will not stop breasts from growing or cause breast cancer.
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Why do men have nipples?

Men have nipples because embryos are always female in their early stages, and males only differentiate from the female prototype after a few weeks.
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