by Seden Hortoglu
The method of this experiment consisted of asking 17 years-old males and females to rank 10 stimuli that they are afraid of (ranking the one they are most afraid of as 1).
2) Father
3) Ghost
4) Death
The first 4 results for males where like this :
1) God
2) Death
3) Girlfriend
4) Having a child
From these results we can have some idea on what teenagers consider to be scary.
The common fear-triggers for females and males:
1) God
2) Death
From the differences we can understand that for males having a child and girlfriend is more frightening than for females…As we can see males don’t care about their parents as much as females do. From this we can understand that family members and family authority are more important for females, as they are more exposed to social pressure. On the other hand, teenage males consider the challenges of life to be more threatening. Females consider to be more threatening conceptual and intuitive triggers.
