Feelings first? Sex differences in affective and cognitive processes in emotion recognition.

ABSTRACT: The recognition of emotional expressions is important for social understanding and interaction, but findings on the relationship between emotion recognition, empathy, and theory of mind, as well as sex differences in these relationships, have been inconsistent. This may reflect the relative involvement of affective and cognitive processes at different stages of emotion recognition and in different experimental paradigms. In this study, images of faces were morphed from neutral to full expression of five basic emotions (anger, disgust, fear, happiness, and sadness), which participants were asked to identify as quickly and accurately as possible. Accuracy and response times from healthy males (n = 46) and females (n = 43) were analysed in relation to self-reported empathy (Empa

SUBMITTER: Bek J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9424719 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature