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Sex differences in recognizing facial expressions of emotion

2025· article· pt· W7124198559 on OpenAlexaff
Vinícius Betzel Koehler, Rosana Suemi Tokumaru

Bibliographic record

VenuePsicologia Teoria e Pesquisa · 2025
Typearticle
Languagept
FieldNeuroscience
TopicFace Recognition and Perception
Canadian institutionsMcMaster University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSurpriseFacial expressionSet (abstract data type)Face (sociological concept)Task (project management)Expression (computer science)Emotional expressionEmotion classification

Abstract

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Abstact Facial expressions are fundamental in social interactions, and they can be perceived differently according to emotion, intensity, and sex. In this study (N=903), participants answered an emotional facial expression recognition (EFER) task with 26 digitally created faces (50% female), including one neutral face and the others expressing happiness, fear, disgust, anger, sadness, and surprise with intensities of 30% and 70%. We compared males and females in terms of correctly identifying the emotion, response time, and intensity attributed. Males were more accurate and faster, and attributed more intensity to some emotions, particularly happiness. Females were more accurate, faster, and attributed more intensity to a different set of emotions. Therefore, we do not support the hypothesis of female superiority in the EFER.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.007
Threshold uncertainty score0.025

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.079
GPT teacher head0.325
Teacher spread0.246 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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