title: Do anxious boys and girls differ in emotion recognition accuracy?
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Difficulty recognizing emotions may contribute to childhood anxiety and anxiety-related social difficulties.
  
  
  METHODS
  We examined the relationship between gender and emotion recognition accuracy in children with and without anxiety disorders.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Gender did not predict emotion recognition accuracy except for disgust.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Disgust recognition was significantly less accurate in clinically anxious girls than in clinically anxious boys. There was also a trend towards anxious girls being less accurate than non-anxious girls in recognizing disgust.
authors: Medical Student, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario.
authors: Trevor Changgun
authors: TC
authors: Lee
authors: Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario.
authors: Monique
authors: M
authors: Herbert
authors: Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario ; Department of Psychiatry, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario.
authors: Katharina
authors: K
authors: Manassis
keywords: anxious children; disgust; emotion recognition; gender