I think that low level of emotional expression favors the kind of personality with great technical creativity--think the quiet (dare we say, Aspie) nerd, vs. a

I think that low level of emotional expression favors the kind of personality with great technical creativity--think the quiet (dare we say, Aspie) nerd, vs. a similarly driven but relationship oriented personality. Is it better to be in world where the CEOs are wearing power suits, crying, and throwing things to negotiate better and the engineers have to keep up, or a world where few emotions are expressed and the CEOs dress down so they don't upset the engineers? I don't think that management all got together one day put out a memo to say no emotions at work, because they felt like it. This article doesn't address that low expression has to be actually beneficial or the stoic Northern Europe / North American economy would not have become dominant over more Southern Europe / global south, which was probably a bigger economy at the time the article identifies as the start of the emotion suppression shift.