The Effect of Gender and Age Differences on the Recognition of Emotions from Facial Expressions

Daniela Schneevogt, Patrizia Paggio


Abstract
Recent studies have demonstrated gender and cultural differences in the recognition of emotions in facial expressions. However, most studies were conducted on American subjects. In this paper, we explore the generalizability of several findings to a non-American culture in the form of Danish subjects. We conduct an emotion recognition task followed by two stereotype questionnaires with different genders and age groups. While recent findings (Krems et al., 2015) suggest that women are biased to see anger in neutral facial expressions posed by females, in our sample both genders assign higher ratings of anger to all emotions expressed by females. Furthermore, we demonstrate an effect of gender on the fear-surprise-confusion observed by Tomkins and McCarter (1964); females overpredict fear, while males overpredict surprise.
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W16-4302
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Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Modeling of People’s Opinions, Personality, and Emotions in Social Media (PEOPLES)
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December
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2016
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Osaka, Japan
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Malvina Nissim, Viviana Patti, Barbara Plank
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PEOPLES
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The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee
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11–19
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Daniela Schneevogt and Patrizia Paggio. 2016. The Effect of Gender and Age Differences on the Recognition of Emotions from Facial Expressions. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Modeling of People’s Opinions, Personality, and Emotions in Social Media (PEOPLES), pages 11–19, Osaka, Japan. The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee.
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