Sex differences in scanning faces: Does attention to the eyes explain female superiority in facial expression recognition?
Sex differences in scanning faces: Does attention to the eyes explain female superiority in facial expression recognition?
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DOI：
10.1080/02699930902906882
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发表时间：
2010-01-01
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Morgan, Michael J.
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作者：
Hall, Jessica K.;Hutton, Sam B.;Morgan, Michael J.
先前的元分析支持女性在解码非语言情感方面的优势（Hall，1978，1984），但这种优势背后的机制尚不清楚。本研究探讨了女性优势是否与女性对眼睛的更大关注有关。在面部表情识别任务中，使用眼动追踪技术测量了19名男性和20名女性对眼睛的注意力。与男性相比，女性在表情识别上更快、更准确，女性比男性更关注眼睛。观察到停留时间和眼睛注视次数与面部表情识别的准确性和面部表情识别的速度之间存在正相关关系。这些结果支持了女性在面部表情识别中的优势与女性对眼睛的更大关注有关的假设。
Previous meta-analyses support a female advantage in decoding non-verbal emotion (Hall, 1978, 1984), yet the mechanisms underlying this advantage are not understood. The present study examined whether the female advantage is related to greater female attention to the eyes. Eye-tracking techniques were used to measure attention to the eyes in 19 males and 20 females during a facial expression recognition task. Women were faster and more accurate in their expression recognition compared with men, and women looked more at the eyes than men. Positive relationships were observed between dwell time and number of fixations to the eyes and both accuracy of facial expression recognition and speed of facial expression recognition. These results support the hypothesis that the female advantage in facial expression recognition is related to greater female attention to the eyes.