Reanalysis of data from Ss of both sexes in response to mild (two behavioral tests) and severe (physiological measures) stress showed males to be more emotional to relatively mild stress but more resistant than females to more stressful experience as has been previously reported by Broadhurst and Sines, respectively.
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