Sex differences in emotion recognition: investigating the moderating effects of stimulus features

Rafiee, Yasaman; Schacht, Anne

doi:10.1080/02699931.2023.2222579

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“…It has been found that male participants showed a larger happy face facilitation effect of male faces compared to female faces in expression recognition ( 54 ). Female participants were found to have an advantage in the recognition of negative emotions, such as fear and anger ( 55 ). Moreover, sex differences in facial expression perception were also influenced by other factors ( 56 ).…”

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Effects of emotion words activation and satiation on facial expression perception: evidence from behavioral and ERP investigations

Xu,

Wang,

Yang

et al. 2023

Front. Psychiatry

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ObjectiveThe present study investigated the impact of emotion concepts obtained from external environmental experiences on the perception of facial expressions by manipulating the activation and satiation of emotion words, which was based on the argument between basic emotion theory and constructed emotion theory.MethodsExperiment 1 explored the effects of emotion activation on happy, disgusted, emotion-label words and emotion-laden words in a facial expression judgment task through behavioral experimentation. Experiment 2 explored the effect of semantic satiation on emotion-label words and emotion-laden words using the event-related potential technique.ResultsExperiment 1 found that facial expression perception was influenced by both types of emotion words and showed a significant emotional consistency effect. Experiment 2 found that N170 exhibited a more negative amplitude in the consistent condition compared to the inconsistent condition in the right hemisphere. More importantly, in the later stage of facial expression processing, emotion-label words and emotion-laden words both obstructed the perception of disgusted facial expressions and elicited more negative N400 amplitude in the emotion consistency condition, showing a reversed N400 effect.ConclusionThese results suggested that emotion concepts in the form of language influenced the perception of facial expressions, but there were differences between happy and disgusted faces. Disgusted faces were more dependent on emotion concept information and showed different performances in semantic activation and satiation conditions.

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Effects of emotion words activation and satiation on facial expression perception: evidence from behavioral and ERP investigations

Xu,

Wang,

Yang

et al. 2023

Front. Psychiatry

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Gender differences in individual emotion recognition in threatening situations: an eye-tracking study

He,

Zhang,

Kong

et al. 2024

Curr Psychol

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Self-Rated Confidence in Vocal Emotion Recognition Ability: The Role of Gender

Sinvani,

Fogel-Grinvald,

Sapir

2024

J Speech Lang Hear Res

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Purpose: We studied the role of gender in metacognition of voice emotion recognition ability (ERA), reflected by self-rated confidence (SRC). To this end, we guided our study in two approaches: first, by examining the role of gender in voice ERA and SRC independently and second, by looking for gender effects on the ERA association with SRC. Method: We asked 100 participants (50 men, 50 women) to interpret a set of vocal expressions portrayed by 30 actors (16 men, 14 women) as defined by their emotional meaning. Targets were 180 repetitive lexical sentences articulated in congruent emotional voices (anger, sadness, surprise, happiness, fear) and neutral expressions. Trial by trial, the participants were assigned retrospective SRC based on their emotional recognition performance. Results: A binomial generalized linear mixed model (GLMM) estimating ERA accuracy revealed a significant gender effect, with women encoders (speakers) yielding higher accuracy levels than men. There was no significant effect of the decoder's (listener's) gender. A second GLMM estimating SRC found a significant effect of encoder and decoder genders, with women outperforming men. Gamma correlations were significantly greater than zero for women and men decoders. Conclusions: In spite of varying interpretations of gender in each independent rating (ERA and SRC), our results suggest that both men and women decoders were accurate in their metacognition regarding voice emotion recognition. Further research is needed to study how individuals of both genders use metacognitive knowledge in their emotional recognition and whether and how such knowledge contributes to effective social communication.

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Sex differences in emotion recognition: investigating the moderating effects of stimulus features

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Cited by 3 publications

References 48 publications

Effects of emotion words activation and satiation on facial expression perception: evidence from behavioral and ERP investigations

Effects of emotion words activation and satiation on facial expression perception: evidence from behavioral and ERP investigations

Gender differences in individual emotion recognition in threatening situations: an eye-tracking study

Self-Rated Confidence in Vocal Emotion Recognition Ability: The Role of Gender

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