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Gender Differences in Processing Fearful and Angry Body Expressions.
Zhenhong He1,2, Zhenli Liu1, Ju Wang1
1Department of Psychology, College of Psychology and Sociology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China.
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
|August 11, 2018
Summary
Gender influences how we perceive emotions in body language. This study found gender-incongruent effects in both early and later processing stages, suggesting gender impacts emotional recognition.
Area of Science:
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Social Psychology
- Gender Studies
Background:
- Previous research indicates gender differences in perceiving body expressions.
- The interaction between observer and subject gender in emotion recognition is not fully understood.
- It's unclear if this interaction is gender-congruent or incongruent.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate gender-congruent versus incongruent effects in recognizing body expressions.
- To examine the role of observer gender and subject gender using event-related potentials (ERPs).
- To explore gender's influence on processing fearful and angry body expressions.
Main Methods:
- Used event-related potentials (ERPs) to record brain activity.
- Analyzed recognition of fearful and angry body expressions from male and female subjects.
- Included behavioral affective rating tasks (valence, intensity, arousal).
Main Results:
- Behavioral data showed males rated female anger as more arousing.
- ERP results revealed gender-incongruent effects in early (P1, N170) and later (P3) processing stages.
- N170 differences suggest same-gender familiarity in structural encoding.
Conclusions:
- Gender significantly modulates the processing of body expressions.
- Findings support gender-incongruent effects, potentially linked to evolutionary roles.
- Results offer insights into gender vulnerabilities in psychiatric disorders affecting social cognition.
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