Based on real world research: Men have equal capacity for emotional intelligence

Icy-Friendship1163 · 2025-08-02T16:52:45+00:00

When society hates you for being a man It is very difficult to have emotional inteligence.

I ve know females with lower emotional inteligence than me , al though It is not the norm.

Infamous-Papaya-6346 · 2025-08-02T18:55:52+00:00

Idk women are more emotional displaying and reading(or trying to) that's all that is I have seen, which might be the reason behind this misleading bias

Futureman999 · 2025-08-02T19:17:02+00:00

"emotional intelligence" should be banned. It's just putting two words together trying to make a thing into a different thing.

Example: "I have a PhD (equivalent) in Dungeons and Dragons" or "I'm quite tall when it comes to collecting action figures"

MaleEducation1 · 2025-08-03T15:56:50+00:00

Emotional intelligence is not something that is really easy to measure, so I definitely am skeptical if it is really reliable.

Regarding equal capacity, while there are cognitive differences between males and females on average (it is well established), these differences are generally quite small (0.1-0.3d) for most, so there is plenty of overlap between the sex. The individual variation being greater than the mean differences, so stereotyping people like this is not a good idea.

Though, from an evolutionary point of view, it has been determined the sexes do differ in certain cognitive abilities.

Women seem to have an advantage in social cognition and on the flip side, men tend to have an advantage in spatial cognition and mechanical reasoning.

A meta-analysis by Joseph & Newman (2010) did show a decent female advantage in Emotional Intelligence (EQ) by around 0.47 standard deviations.

Social cognition is also associated with EQ. Thompson & Voyer (2014) showed a small advantage in favor of females for identifying emotions (0.19d) and Hall (1978) showed a moderate female advantage in the ability to decode non-verbal cues (0.40d).

Males advantage in spatial abilities generally average out to about half a standard deviation (~0.5d) and are as big about one standard deviation (~1.0d) for certain abilities.(Linn and Petersen (1985); Voyer, Voyer & Bryden (1995); Silverman, Choi & Peters (2007); Archer (2019)).

In Mechanical Reasoning, a male advantage of ~0.98d (**about a Standard Deviation) was reported in a meta-analysis by Archer (2019). It generally ranges consistently from 0.67-0.98d. (Arribas-Agula et al (2019); Lynn(1992); Lupkowski (1987); Arribas-Agula et al (2019); Lynn (1992); Hedges & Nowell (1995); Colom & Lynn (2004); Hedges & Nowell (1995); Archer (2019))

These differences should not be used to generalize, but they do exist and should be seen as complementary to each other.

YetAnotherCommenter · 2025-08-05T01:52:17+00:00

"Emotional Intelligence" exists only to pretend that having the right feels/glandular excretions at the right time is somehow just as valuable as the rational faculty... you know, the thing that enables all of humanity's technological development and engineering growth and the consequent raise in the standard of living.

It is useful in certain contexts. But it doesn't have nearly the same ability to objectively improve human living standards as actual intelligence.

This culture really overvalues feelings and undervalues reason.

captainhornheart · 2025-08-02T21:50:55+00:00

Chad Ballberry? No

Jimithyashford · 2025-08-04T17:43:11+00:00

I don't think anyone ever thought men have less CAPACITY, I believe the argument is that they have less PROCLIVITY, largely due to social conditioning but maybe very slightly due to natural differences between the genders.

Complete-Junket-8209 · 2025-08-07T15:01:08+00:00

Most men shut down the emotional aspect for their life's after at a certain point in their life it's sad but it's a commen thing

Title	Based on real world research: Men have equal capacity for emotional intelligence
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Date	August 2, 2025 3:30 PM UTC (1 year ago)
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