by Norman M. Brown Ph.D. | Let’s consider the proposition that American culture is one of these warlike cultures in which men expect to dominate. Men consider women to be less capable than them and also likely to feel emotions
Toxic Masculinity 4: American Gendered Emotional Management
by Norman M. Brown Ph.D. | Excitement and risk-taking are highly valued in America where the American rags-to-riches myth emphasizes big-risk entrepreneurship and ruthless business competition to make it to the top. We have explored in Joy Blog #5 some
Toxic Masculinity 5: Men Handle Love Emotions Less Consciously
by Norman M. Brown Ph.D. | The last central emotional issue between men and women we’ll take up is the most precious in personal life, love. Love is not included among the nine inborn emotions because it arises from several
Toxic Masculinity 6: Central Problems in Our Love
by Norman M. Brown Ph.D. | But here is where the emotional problems between men and women are so clear and easy to understand. Boys learn to stop themselves from crying with a few terribly shaming experiences in the early
What Blocks us from Accepting Women as Leaders?
by Marsha Hudson, Ph.D. Recently, former President Barack Obama said, “If more women were put in charge, there would be less war, kids would be better taken care of and there would be a general improvement in living standards and outcomes.”
Joy As Closest Emotion to Love, Part 1: Sight
by Norman M. Brown Ph.D. | Of all the basic inborn emotions joy may be the closest to love. There are pathways to joy from many other inborn emotions, but we will explore the physical sources first. These are the
JOY, Part 2: Sound
by Norman M. Brown Ph.D. | While visual pleasure may move us with or without associated meaning, sound can affect us on a different level. For sound may seem simpler than the complex features of a face or landscape, yet
JOY, Part 3: Touch-Pleasure and Two Shadow Sides of Joy
by Norman M. Brown Ph.D. | Touch, caresses, holding another’s hand or arm for steady support in a crowd or on a careening bus; all these meetings of skin begin connection that can bring us as close as family once
JOY, Part 4: Concerns and Gender Differences
by Norman M. Brown Ph.D. | Is Joy necessarily fleeting? Is joy imagined in heavenly art as a place only found after death? And even then is it only if we humans (meaning mostly men) make few enough mistakes, despite
JOY, Part 5: Consequences of Gender Differences.
by Norman M. Brown Ph.D. | Enjoyment forms the emotional basis of developing habits and attachments to familiar people and other living as well as inanimate things and even abstract goals, such as values and ideas. Anyone can learn to