Women's greater ability to perceive happy facial emotion automatically: gender differences in affective priming.

There is evidence that women are better in recognizing their own and others' emotions. The female advantage in emotion recognition becomes even more apparent under conditions of rapid stimulus presentation. Affective priming paradigms have been developed to examine empirically whether facial em...

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Main Authors: Uta-Susan Donges, Anette Kersting, Thomas Suslow
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3402412?pdf=render