Angry facial expressions bias gender categorization in children and adults: behavioral and computational evidence

Angry facial expressions bias gender categorization in children and adults: behavioral and computational evidence

Angry faces are perceived as more masculine by adults. However, the developmental course and underlying mechanism (bottom-up stimulus driven or top-down belief driven) associated with the angry-male bias remain unclear. Here we report that anger biases face gender categorization towards male respond...

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Main Authors: Laurie eBayet, Olivier ePascalis, Paul C. Quinn, Kang eLee, Edouard eGentaz, James W. Tanaka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
Face
emotion
gender
representation
Children
stereotype
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00346/full

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