Do you see what i see? Sex differences in the discrimination of facial emotions during adolescence

Emotion

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1030-1040

  Lee, Nikki C ^a,b   Krabbendam, Lydia ^a,b   White, Thomas P ^b   Meeter, Martijn ^a   Banaschewski, Tobias ^c,d   Barker, Gareth J ^b   Bokde, Arun L W ^e   Büchel, Christian ^f   Conrod, Patricia ^b,g   Flor, Herta ^c,d   Frouin, Vincent ^h   Heinz, Andreas ⁱ   Garavan, Hugh ^j,k   Gowland, Penny ^l   Ittermann, Bernd ^m   Mann, Karl ^c,d   Martinot, Marie Laure Paillère ^n,o   Nees, Frauke ^c,d   Paus, Tomas ^l,p,q   Pausova, Zdenka ^r   Rietschel, Marcella ^c,d   Robbins, Trevor ^s   Fauth Bühler, Mira ^c,d   Smolka, Michael N ^t   Gallinat, Juergen ⁱ   Schumann, Gunther ^b   Shergill, Sukhi S ^b   more..

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^e TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^f UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^h DIF   (France)

ⁱ CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^j TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^k UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^m PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

ⁿ INSERM   (France)

^o ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE PARIS   (France)

^p UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^q MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^r HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^s UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^t DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

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Author keywords

Adolescence; Emotion recognition; Facial expressions; Puberty

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ANGER; ARTICLE; EMOTION; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION; MALE; MATURATION; MENTAL DISEASE; PEER GROUP; PERCEPTION; PREVALENCE; PROCESSING; PUBERTY; RECOGNITION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ANGER; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; EMOTIONS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PUBERTY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84890102631     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0033560     Document Type: Article

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