She suggests that this could be because they are more comfortable with expressing their emotions.

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Social norms can mitigate against men expressing their emotions or appearing vulnerable, it adds, meaning common psychological disorders, including depression and anxiety, are under diagnosed in men.

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If you look at music that way, it's not classical or jazz or blue grass or folk it's the language of human emotions, expressing the real, everyday emotions we all feel.

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The person has a hard time regulating, expressing or understanding emotions.

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From this natural narrative flow, Balmorhea proves that a cello and a banjo are just as capable of expressing ideas and emotions as a group of words on a page.

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He knows how to make his message personal, empathetic and powerfully uplifting all at once, quoting choice bits of scripture to maximum effect and personalizing heartbreak by expressing his own feelings and the universal emotions of being a parent.

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That music does, indeed, elicit emotions rather than merely expressing an emotion that the listener recognises has been shown more directly by Carol Krumhansl, a psychologist at Cornell University.

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Chris, unfortunately, was one of those people, he bottled up a lot of his emotions and wasn't very good at expressing himself.

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