Does anyone have an article about the effects of babies crying and how certain men cannot deal with it?

I read an article a few years ago where a study was done regarding how baby's cries affected aggression patterns in men.


I remember a statistic like 30% of men are born with an intolerance to babies crying and 5% or so of women.


It's well known that some men hate baby cries but this was a study on why and such.





ThanksDoes anyone have an article about the effects of babies crying and how certain men cannot deal with it?
I've tried to search a few databases using ebscohost, but haven't found exact results (see 3 abstracts below--some you may find online by typing in author names). Do you happen to remember anything about it? The date? The author? The title? I would think that it would be related more to some other biologically based trait like neuroticism. Get onto ebsco or google scholar and see if you can find it, or send me more info. Email me if you can't find them and I'll try to send you more info. One of the articles was PDF, so I can send that to you.





Author(s): Stein, Lawrence B., U Alabama, Dept of Psychology, US


Brodsky, Stanley L.


Source: Journal of General Psychology, Vol 122(1), Jan 1995. pp. 19-27.


Publisher: US: Heldref Publications


ISSN: 0022-1309 (Print)


Language: English


Keywords: frustration caused by infant crying, willingness to self disclose distress, male vs female college students


Abstract: Investigated gender and differences in self-disclosure following a frustrating event. The Emotional Self-Disclosure Scale assessed the extent to which 100 male and 100 female undergraduates were willing to disclose their emotions. The frustrating stimulus presented was a tape of an infant crying, played at 85 dB for 10 min. The men exposed to the noxious stimulus were less willing to disclose than men who were not. All of the men were less willing than the women to disclose in either condition. Women in the 2 conditions showed no differences in disclosure. These findings are interpreted with respect to how disclosure is affected by the immediate environment and with respect to male-female differences.





Title: Find More Like ThisDifferential sex-independent amygdala response to infant crying and laughing in parents versus nonparents.


Authors: Seifritz, Erich1


Esposito, Fabrizio2


Neuhoff, John G.3


L眉thi, Andreas4


Mustovic, Henrietta1


Dammann, Gerhard1


von Bardeleben, Ulrich1


Radue, Ernst W.5


Cirillo, Sossio6


Tedeschi, Gioacchino2


Di Salle, Francesco7


Background: Animal and human studies implicate forebrain neural circuits in maternal behavior. Here, we hypothesized that human brain response to emotional stimuli relevant for social interactions between infants and adults are modulated by sex- and experience-dependent factors.Methods: We used functional magnetic resonance imaging and examined brain response to infant crying and laughing in mothers and fathers of young children and in women and men without children.Results: Women but not men, independent of their parental status, showed neural deactivation in the anterior cingulate cortex, as indexed by decreased blood oxygenation level鈥揹ependent signal, in response to both infant crying and laughing. The response pattern changed fundamentally with parental experience: in the amygdala and interconnected limbic regions, parents (independent of sex) showed stronger activation from crying, whereas nonparents showed stronger activation from laughing.Conclusions: Our data show sex- and experience-dependent modulation of brain response to infant vocalizations. Successful recognition and evaluation of infant vocalizations can be critical for bonding mechanisms and for offspring well-being and survival. Thus, the modulation of responses by experience





Translated Title: Paternal cognition of infant crying.


Author(s): Kamiya, Tetsuji, Tohoku U, Graduate School of Education, Japan


The present study examined men's perceptions of infant crying and their recognition of the causes of infant crying. Four groups participated in the research: (A) 45 unmarried men, (B) 10 newlywed men, (C) 15 men whose wives were expecting their first child, and (D) 27 fathers. Participants rated the cries of infant who had been evaluated as low and high for risk/complications, and offered their reasons for infants' crying. The results included (1) Group D (fathers) perceptions were not as negative as those of Group A (unmarried men), (2) Group D perceptions correlated with frequency of child rearing activity, and Group C correlated with participants' gender role concept and experience of child rearing, (3) Groups C and D discriminated between infant cries, recognizing pain as one cause of crying. These results demonstrated that a cognitive framework for understanding infant crying forms early in men's experience of fatherhood, and that fathers were competent in child rearing. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)Does anyone have an article about the effects of babies crying and how certain men cannot deal with it?
If men hate to hear babies cry--then they need to get a vasectomy at age 16.
It has nothing to do with ';cannot deal with it';, they simply choose not to since child rearing is viewed as women's work and thus delegated to the status of subservient labours.


Men are not born with an intolerance to baby crying, this is simply a learned and selfish behaviour. You will not find any statistics that support this that has any valid scholarly backing.


You may want to explore the shaping of gender and this is where these particular attributes come in to play.