Do you see what I see? Sex differences in the discrimination of facial emotions during adolescence
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Do you see what I see? Sex differences in the discrimination of facial emotions during adolescence. / IMAGEN Consortium.
in: EMOTION, Jahrgang 13, Nr. 6, 01.12.2013, S. 1030-40.Publikationen: SCORING: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift/Zeitung › SCORING: Zeitschriftenaufsatz › Forschung › Begutachtung
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T1 - Do you see what I see? Sex differences in the discrimination of facial emotions during adolescence
AU - Lee, Nikki C
AU - Krabbendam, Lydia
AU - White, Thomas P
AU - Meeter, Martijn
AU - Banaschewski, Tobias
AU - Barker, Gareth J
AU - Bokde, Arun L W
AU - Büchel, Christian
AU - Conrod, Patricia
AU - Flor, Herta
AU - Frouin, Vincent
AU - Heinz, Andreas
AU - Garavan, Hugh
AU - Gowland, Penny
AU - Ittermann, Bernd
AU - Mann, Karl
AU - Paillère Martinot, Marie-Laure
AU - Nees, Frauke
AU - Paus, Tomas
AU - Pausova, Zdenka
AU - Rietschel, Marcella
AU - Robbins, Trevor
AU - Fauth-Bühler, Mira
AU - Smolka, Michael N
AU - Gallinat, Jürgen
AU - Schumann, Gunther
AU - Shergill, Sukhi S
AU - IMAGEN Consortium
PY - 2013/12/1
Y1 - 2013/12/1
N2 - During adolescence social relationships become increasingly important. Establishing and maintaining these relationships requires understanding of emotional stimuli, such as facial emotions. A failure to adequately interpret emotional facial expressions has previously been associated with various mental disorders that emerge during adolescence. The current study examined sex differences in emotional face processing during adolescence. Participants were adolescents (n = 1951) with a target age of 14, who completed a forced-choice emotion discrimination task. The stimuli used comprised morphed faces that contained a blend of two emotions in varying intensities (11 stimuli per set of emotions). Adolescent girls showed faster and more sensitive perception of facial emotions than boys. However, both adolescent boys and girls were most sensitive to variations in emotion intensity in faces combining happiness and sadness, and least sensitive to changes in faces comprising fear and anger. Furthermore, both sexes overidentified happiness and anger. However, the overidentification of happiness was stronger in boys. These findings were not influenced by individual differences in the level of pubertal maturation. These results indicate that male and female adolescents differ in their ability to identify emotions in morphed faces containing emotional blends. The findings provide information for clinical studies examining whether sex differences in emotional processing are related to sex differences in the prevalence of psychiatric disorders within this age group.
AB - During adolescence social relationships become increasingly important. Establishing and maintaining these relationships requires understanding of emotional stimuli, such as facial emotions. A failure to adequately interpret emotional facial expressions has previously been associated with various mental disorders that emerge during adolescence. The current study examined sex differences in emotional face processing during adolescence. Participants were adolescents (n = 1951) with a target age of 14, who completed a forced-choice emotion discrimination task. The stimuli used comprised morphed faces that contained a blend of two emotions in varying intensities (11 stimuli per set of emotions). Adolescent girls showed faster and more sensitive perception of facial emotions than boys. However, both adolescent boys and girls were most sensitive to variations in emotion intensity in faces combining happiness and sadness, and least sensitive to changes in faces comprising fear and anger. Furthermore, both sexes overidentified happiness and anger. However, the overidentification of happiness was stronger in boys. These findings were not influenced by individual differences in the level of pubertal maturation. These results indicate that male and female adolescents differ in their ability to identify emotions in morphed faces containing emotional blends. The findings provide information for clinical studies examining whether sex differences in emotional processing are related to sex differences in the prevalence of psychiatric disorders within this age group.
U2 - 10.1037/a0033560
DO - 10.1037/a0033560
M3 - SCORING: Journal article
C2 - 23914763
VL - 13
SP - 1030
EP - 1040
JO - EMOTION
JF - EMOTION
SN - 1528-3542
IS - 6
ER -