Personality Traits and Sex Differences in Emotion Recognition among African Americans and Caucasians

Servicescape moderation on personality traits, emotions, satisfaction, and behaviors

“…The notion of openness to experience is important for affective processing and has been related to variation in the structure of self-rated affect (Terracciano et al, 2003). DeNeve and Cooper (1998) found openness to experience predisposes individuals to feel both the good and the bad more deeply, rendering its directional influence on affective reactions of subjective wellbeing or job satisfaction.…”

Are Cultural Differences in Emotion Regulation Mediated by Personality Traits?

“…For example, agreeableness may be related to how individuals express negative emotions (McCrae & Costa, 1997); agreeableness and conscientiousness has been correlated with positive emotions (Costa & McCrae, 1980;McCrae & Costa, 1991); and openness has been correlated with the ability to recognize emotions (Matsumoto et al, 2000;Terracciano, Merritt, Zonderman, & Evans, 2003), which should be related to emotion regulation. The evidence for these relationships, however, is much weaker than that for neuroticism and extraversion.…”

Modulation of Emotional Faces Processing and Its Implication for Depression and Anxiety

“…Among the latter, most of them suggest a better performance of women in the identification of facial expressions, regardless of emotion evaluated (e.g. Hall and Matsumoto, 2004;Rahman et al, 2004;Terracciano et al, 2003). In this direction, physiological parameters suggest a greater responsiveness of women to facial expressions (Campanella et al, 2004;Dimberg, 1990;Orozco & Ehlers, 1998), although negative results have also been reported (Lundqvist, 1995).…”