AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Despite conventional wisdom, women are no better at reading faces than men. Despite conventional wisdom, a new study from Penn State has found no difference between men and women in their ability to recognise and read facial expressions.

Detailed explanation-2: -Several meta-analyses on gender differences in nonverbal decoding have shown that women are superior in decoding emotions than are men [16, 17, 18]. Of the studies included in these meta-analyses, 80% show a female advantage, although differences were small to moderate.

Detailed explanation-3: -Several studies investigating gender differences utilized static emotional faces and found that women generally exhibited greater facial EMG responses which were most pronounced to positive facial expressions (Dimberg and Lundquist, 1990).

Detailed explanation-4: -Most of the time, we are pretty good at reading the emotion in other people’s faces. Hundreds of studies over the past 50 years reveal that most of us can quickly and accurately distinguish basic emotional expressions from each other, even when the expression is present for as little as a tenth of a second.