Gender Differences in Identifying Facial, Prosodic, and Semantic Emotions Show Category- and Channel-Specific Effects Mediated by Encoder's Gender

Autor/inn/en	Lin, Yi; Ding, Hongwei; Zhang, Yang
Titel	Gender Differences in Identifying Facial, Prosodic, and Semantic Emotions Show Category- and Channel-Specific Effects Mediated by Encoder's Gender
Quelle	In: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 64 (2021) 8, S.2941-2955 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Zhang, Yang)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1092-4388
Schlagwörter	Gender Differences; Emotional Response; Verbal Communication; Nonverbal Communication; Foreign Countries; College Students; Visual Stimuli; Auditory Stimuli; Accuracy; Reaction Time; China (Shanghai) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Geschlechterkonflikt; Emotionales Verhalten; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Ausland; Collegestudent; Auditive Stimulation; Reaktionsvermögen
Abstract	Purpose: The nature of gender differences in emotion processing has remained unclear due to the discrepancies in existing literature. This study examined the modulatory effects of emotion categories and communication channels on gender differences in verbal and nonverbal emotion perception. Method: Eighty-eight participants (43 females and 45 males) were asked to identify three basic emotions (i.e., happiness, sadness, and anger) and neutrality encoded by female or male actors from verbal (i.e., semantic) or nonverbal (i.e., facial and prosodic) channels. Results: While women showed an overall advantage in performance, their superiority was dependent on specific types of emotion and channel. Specifically, women outperformed men in regard to two basic emotions (happiness and sadness) in the nonverbal channels and only the anger category with verbal content. Conversely, men did better for the anger category in the nonverbal channels and for the other two emotions (happiness and sadness) in verbal content. There was an emotion- and channel-specific interaction effect between the two types of gender differences, with male subjects showing higher sensitivity to sad faces and prosody portrayed by the female encoders. Conclusion: These findings reveal explicit emotion processing as a highly dynamic complex process with significant gender differences tied to specific emotion categories and communication channels. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01