Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay were having lunch at the mall when they heard on the radio about the tragic deaths of a number ofsome local children in a bus accident. Both were overcome with emotion. Mrs. Ramsay started to cry but Mr. Ramsay masked his feelings. As noted in the Critical Thinking box"Are Women Really More Emotional Than Men?", this gender difference in the expression of emotion is probably aresult of:

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Culturally determined display rules refer to societal expectations or norms regarding how emotions should be expressed or controlled. In many cultures, women are socialized to express emotions more openly than men, while men are taught to control or mask their emotions, which could explain Mr. Ramsay's behavior in this scenario. The other options - dyspareunia, male stonewalling, and female flooding - are not relevant to the scenario or do not explain the gender difference in emotional expression.

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