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Sex differences in judgement of facial affect: A multivariate analysis of recognition errors
Author(s) -
Thayer Julian,
Johnsen Bjørn Helge
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9450.00193
Subject(s) - psychology , judgement , valence (chemistry) , affect (linguistics) , arousal , facial expression , developmental psychology , multivariate analysis , social psychology , communication , statistics , physics , mathematics , quantum mechanics , political science , law
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.