Secrets Of The Sexes 1. Brainsex (13 of 26)

Secrets Of The Sexes

Liz is 40% more accurate than Craig at reading emotion in others because she is using the emotional part of her own brain.
And the scans reveal that in this test Craig shows no emotional response at all.
Liz, are you surprised at Craig's result?
What surprised me most was the fact that it was completely devoid of any emotional response in the centre part of the brain.
l mean that actually has given me a big insight into why um l've often felt l wish he would show some emotion...
Yeah but-but also switching back, in terms of our relationship and in terms ofjust our understanding, l sometimes need things to be spelt out more.

Yeah.
Yeah that-just don't think l'm going to take it on telepathically or sojust, you've actually got to tell me.
And also l mean in situations where there's plenty of conflict and so on, l'm trying to calm things down actually.
l guess l just want to avoid conflict, whereas you're more able to-- or more willing to fort of embrace...
Yeah.
Well l just think it's-it's a much more interesting level to operate on if you can get into your emotional response a bit more.
If women assume that men are just like them, and vice versa, that's when you get into difficulties.
As far as you're concerned you're sending out all these signals.
It 's entirely obvious that you are upset, so then when the bloke doesn't respond you up the anti some more because you're determined to get an emotional response, you introduce emotive s-you know, emotive topics so he has to respond, he can't ignore it.
And then what do you do? You end up having a ding-dong.
It 's a shame for it to have to degenerate into a row...
just in order to activate the emotional response...