When Identifying Emotions, Women Outperform Men

SOURCE:  Medical News Today

DATE:  October 23, 2009

EXCERPT: "Women are better than men at distinguishing between emotions, especially fear and disgust, ....  [researchers]  demonstrated that women are better than men at processing auditory, visual and audiovisual emotions."   more

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Collignon O, Girard S, Gosselin F, Saint-Amour D, Lepore F, Lassonde M. Women process multisensory emotion expressions more efficiently than men. Neuropsychologia. 2009 Sep 15.