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Article: When infants wail: frustration and gender as variables in distress disclosure.
- Article from:
- The Journal of General Psychology
- Article date:
- January 1, 1995
- Author:
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Each day people must decide how much they are willing to share with others various kinds of information about themselves. Jourard (1971) defined self-disclosure as the process of making oneself known to specific target persons. Disclosure differences exist across genders and nationalities (Jourard, 1961). Therefore, interpersonal disclosure may be best understood as a complex and multifaceted phenomenon.
Why do differences exist between genders, races, and cultures? Although there have been few conclusive scientific studies on this question, it is generally believed that socialization is the strongest contributing factor in disclosure. At least in Western culture, men ...