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 pa- per, 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 question- naires 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.
recognition of emotions in facial expressions. However, most studies were
conducted on American subjects. In this pa- per, 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 question- naires 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.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Modeling of People's Opinions, Personality, and Emotions in Social Media (PEOPLES) |
| Publisher | Association for Computational Linguistics |
| Publication date | 2016 |
| Pages | 11-19 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-4-87974-723-5 |
| Publication status | Published - 2016 |
| Event | Workshop on Computational Modeling of People's Opinions, Personality, and Emotions in Social Media (PEOPLES): COLING 2016 - Osaka, Japan Duration: 12 Dec 2016 → 12 Dec 2016 |
Workshop
| Workshop | Workshop on Computational Modeling of People's Opinions, Personality, and Emotions in Social Media (PEOPLES) |
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| Country/Territory | Japan |
| City | Osaka |
| Period | 12/12/2016 → 12/12/2016 |