DADvocate

In a continuing theme of happy men, a study at the University of California, Davis:

found females more likely think negative events predict future events and this may explain why women perceive more risk and have more anxiety.

The study, published in Child Development, found that children and adults believe negative past events forecast negative future events, however, young girls and women more likely to believe negative past events predict future harm, compared to males.

One of the researchers added:

"These results are significant because they reveal that knowledge about the impact of past-to-future thinking on emotions and behaviors develops during the preschool years," Lagattuta said in a statement.

Indeed that the emotions and behaviors are apparent at such an early age that it would be worthwhile to investigate whether or not the behaviors are genetic.

I also wonder if this difference in anxiety and perception between males and females may be perceived by females as males "not caring" when the male is not as concerned about a possible event as the female. Yet, the difference is simply due to a fundamental difference in the way males and females perceive and anticipate certain events.

Some women may not like the results of this study, but I'm not worried about that.

:-)