TESTING AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
GROUP DIFFERENCES AND THE QUESTION OF BIAS
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Question
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Emotion-Detecting
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Spatial Ability
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Solving Mathematical Problems
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The girls scored higher on emotional regulation by emotion and joint or grand mean scores. Statistically significant differences between boys and girls were observed in sadness-like emotions, anxiety.
Detailed explanation-2: -The literature finds women have higher emotional intelligence ability than men based on common ability tests such as the MSCEIT. Physiological measures and behavioral tests also support this finding.
Detailed explanation-3: -This is possibly due to hormonal differences, as several studies have shown that certain sex hormones influence the way that emotions are expressed. Other researchers found this gender difference decreases over time.
Detailed explanation-4: -Differences in Emotion Recognition: The Influence of Gender In our older adults, sample females seem to show significantly higher scores in anger recognition on PoFA compared to males. On total M-PoFA, females also seem to show more ability than males to recognize paired emotions.