Age- and Gender-Related Variations of Emotion Recognition in Pseudowords and Faces
Age- and Gender-Related Variations of Emotion Recognition in Pseudowords and Faces
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DOI：
10.1080/0361073x.2014.882210
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发表时间：
2014-03-15
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
Mathiak, Klaus
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作者：
Demenescu, Liliana R.;Mathiak, Krystyna A.;Mathiak, Klaus
背景/研究背景：解释情绪突出刺激的能力是任何年龄成功的社会功能的重要技能。本研究的目的是解开年龄和性别的影响，情绪识别能力的声音和faces.Methods：三个年龄组的参与者（年轻，年龄范围：18-35岁;中年，年龄范围：36-55岁;和老年人，年龄范围：56-75岁）确定基本的情绪呈现在声音和面孔中的强迫选择的范例。五种情绪（愤怒，恐惧，悲伤，厌恶，快乐）和一个非情绪类（中性）被编码在彩色照片的面部表情和pseudowords说的情感prosydy.Results：总体而言，老年人参与者有一个较低的准确率在分类的情绪比年轻和中年参与者。女性在从声音中识别情感方面表现得比男性更好，这种性别差异出现在中年和老年参与者中。面部表情识别的性能显着相关的性能在voices.Conclusion：目前的研究提供了进一步的证据，一般的年龄和性别的影响情绪识别的女性的优势似乎是年龄和刺激方式依赖。
Background/Study Context: The ability to interpret emotionally salient stimuli is an important skill for successful social functioning at any age. The objective of the present study was to disentangle age and gender effects on emotion recognition ability in voices and faces.Methods: Three age groups of participants (young, age range: 18-35 years; middle-aged, age range: 36-55 years; and older, age range: 56-75 years) identified basic emotions presented in voices and faces in a forced-choice paradigm. Five emotions (angry, fearful, sad, disgusted, and happy) and a nonemotional category (neutral) were shown as encoded in color photographs of facial expressions and pseudowords spoken in affective prosody.Results: Overall, older participants had a lower accuracy rate in categorizing emotions than young and middle-aged participants. Females performed better than males in recognizing emotions from voices, and this gender difference emerged in middle-aged and older participants. The performance of emotion recognition in faces was significantly correlated with the performance in voices.Conclusion: The current study provides further evidence for a general age and gender effect on emotion recognition; the advantage of females seems to be age- and stimulus modality-dependent.