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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nightson" data-source="post: 5561542" data-attributes="member: 61515">Study mention time.  I don't have the citation but the relevant details should be googalable should anyone desire. Researchers invited people in for an experiment.  They were told there was a problem and they had to wait in the waiting room for about five minutes.  The people engaged in small talk.Then the researchers invited them back, gave them video of their conversation.  They were shown themselves and asked to stop and note down anytime they remembered feeling a particular though or emotion.Videos were then switched and people were shown the footage of the other person with the video stopping where they had noted an emotion.  Then they had to write down what they thought the other person was feeling.And the results of this study showed... no gender difference at all.  But!  The tale is not over.  While they continued to find no gender difference a few more times and in different countries, all of a sudden the gender difference was present, women were outscoring men where they had been equal before.What changed?  A question was added to the test asking the participants to rate how accurate they felt they were.  That reminder that women are supposed to be the emphatic ones was all it took to create an actual difference in results.</blockquote>