Nonverbal communication is defined as communication without words. (Devito, 116) In your interpersonal interactions, your face communicates many things, especially your emotions. (Devito, 125) In today's society women are stereotyped to be more emotional than men in emotional contexts. This is not true in all cases, however, men feel they need to give a strong and domineering demonstration of their emotions and how they react to certain emotional situations. Gender display rules are a set of rules that males or females usually follow to fit their specific gender script in society. In the textbook it is stated that women talk more about feelings and emotions and use communication for emotional expression more than men, and for this reason women express themselves more facially than men. (Devito, 148) The research article I chose to summarize for the second part of the textbook is titled “Gender Difference in Facial Reaction to Fear-Relevant Stimuli.” The goal was to find out whether females are predominantly more facially reactive than males, or whether females are more emotionally reactive in general, as also reflected in non-facial reactions such as autonomic response and emotional experience. (Thunberg & Dimberg) In previous research on nonverbal communication, the findings stated that women tend to be more emotional than men in emotional situations. (Thunberg & Dimberg) Research has also found that image-induced emotions and visually presented emotional stimuli generate specific facial EMG responses that are interpretable as negative and positive emotional responses. Further studies with the EMG test, which is a test that evaluates reactions to emotional activity, show that women are generally more emotionally reactive. Based on the results of previous research, the authors of this article have presented two hypotheses, which they will use to explain the following study. These hypotheses are: 1. That when exposed to emotional stimuli, females are specifically more facially reactive, but not more reactive in other respects, and, 2, that females are more emotionally reactive in general. (Thunberg & Dimberg, 2) The main purpose of the study was to distinguish the results between the two hypotheses provided. Ninety-six students from Uppsala ...... middle of the paper ...... in my family, I can say that my family is different when it comes to gender display rules. When I was fourteen I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. When I found out the diagnosis, I cried for weeks, along with my mother, father and brother. My father and brother were not ashamed to cry with me in the hospital. However, my family has always been emotional and I am aware that every family and person is different. So, having an emotional family gave me reason to think that it's not true that men don't cry or show emotion. Of course, everyone is different, and after taking this course together with Family and Society, I am on my way to having a very open attitude on many different aspects on different issues related to gender, family, communication skills, etc., where before I was very objective with everyone and everything except myself. References Devito, Joseph A. Messages that Develop Interpersonal Communication Skills. Hunter College of the City University of New York. United States, 2005Thunberg, Monika, Dimberg, Ulf. “Gender difference in facial reaction to fear-relevant stimuli.” Journal of Nonverbal Behavior. New York: Spring 2000. vol. 24, Iss1; PAGE 45