Sex Differences in Recognition of Face Expressions.

Emotional facial expressions are a crucial non-verbal communication skill for humans’ interactions. The current study assessed the impact of sex on emotional face recognition. A total of 125 individuals performed an online emotional face recognition task. The stimuli were created recutting male and female Saudi volunteers. Results showed that, except of the male participants having faster responses compared to fe-males in general, no main significant differences between the sex group in accuracy nor any significant in-teraction between participant sex and the sex of the faces. Our findings suggests that the effect of sex on emotional face recognition needs further investigation with well calibrated stimuli. Limitations and the di-rection of future research in this area were discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]