Hemifacial asymmetry in emotion expressions.
We examined asymmetry in posed facial expression of emotions: happy and sad. Hemifacial composite photographs, left-left and right-right, were prepared, and subjects rated these for intensity of expressed emotion. Overall, left-left composites were judged to have expressed emotions relatively more intensely than the right-right composites. The significant Sex x Emotion interaction revealed that female expressors were judged as more expressive than male expressors in expressing sad facial emotion. Sex difference in expression of happy facial emotion was not significant.
Asthana
H S
HS
Department of Psychology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.
Mandal
M K
MK
D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D004644:Emotions; D005149:Facial Expression; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual