title: Sex differences in judgement of facial affect: a multivariate analysis of recognition errors.
abstract: The present paper investigated recognition errors in affective judgement of facial emotional expressions. Twenty-eight females and sixteen males participated in the study. The results showed that in both males and females emotional displays could be correctly classified, but females had a higher rate of correct classification; males were more likely to have difficulty distinguishing one emotion from another. Females rated emotions identically regardless of whether the emotion was displayed by a male or female face. Furthermore, the two-factor structure of emotion, based on a valence and an arousal dimension, was only present for female subjects. These results further extend our knowledge about gender differences in affective information processing.
authors.affiliation: National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, USA.
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Thayer
authors.forename: B H
authors.initials: BH
authors.lastname: Johnsen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D003071:Cognition; D005149:Facial Expression; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D008297:Male; D012737:Sex Factors; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*