Depressive affect moderates the effects of biological sex on the recognition of facial emotion.
Depression
Facial emotion
Sex difference
Journal
Archives of women's mental health
ISSN: 1435-1102
Titre abrégé: Arch Womens Ment Health
Pays: Austria
ID NLM: 9815663
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
04 2022
04 2022
Historique:
received:
20
09
2021
accepted:
21
01
2022
pubmed:
4
2
2022
medline:
25
3
2022
entrez:
3
2
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Females show a small processing advantage relative to males in the ability to identify facial expressions of emotion. In laboratory studies, this is expressed as a sex difference in the accuracy of discrimination or in recognition latencies (the time required to identify an expression). Reasons for the sex difference are not well-understood. In the current pilot study, young adults (N = 62) with and without mild to moderate symptoms of depression were asked to discriminate facial images of infants and toddlers expressing six cardinal emotions. Results showed that elevated depressive affect was associated with more rapid recognition of negative emotions by females, and with potentiation of the typically observed sex difference, compared with non-depressed observers. Differences in endogenous affective status might be one proximate factor contributing to a female advantage in emotion recognition.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35112165
doi: 10.1007/s00737-022-01208-w
pii: 10.1007/s00737-022-01208-w
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
493-499Informations de copyright
© 2022. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Austria, part of Springer Nature.
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