Interest in sex-related differences in psychological functioning has again come to the
foreground with new findings about their possible functional basis in the brain. Sex …

The understanding of the adult proficiency in recognizing and extracting information from
faces is still limited despite the number of studies over the last decade. Our knowledge on …

Our ability to differentiate between simple facial expressions of emotion develops between
infancy and early adulthood, yet few studies have explored the developmental trajectory of …

The present study aimed to quantify the magnitude of sex differences in humans' ability to
accurately recognise non-verbal emotional displays. Studies of relevance were those that …

Fear is one of the most basic and most powerful of all the human emotions. Sometimes it is
hauntingly specific: flames searing patterns on the ceiling, a hydrogen bomb, a terrorist …

There is evidence that men and women display differences in both cognitive and affective
functions. Recent studies have examined the processing of emotions in males and females …

This article examines and appraises some approaches to the analysis of emotional
experience in history‐'emotionology', social constructivism, narrativization, and psycho …

The ability to recognize and label emotional facial expressions is an important aspect of
social cognition. However, existing paradigms to examine this ability present only static …

Now available in paperback from psychologist and award-winningcolumnistSusanPinker,
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The X-chromosome has played a crucial role in the development of sexually selected
characteristics for over 300 million years. During that time it has accumulated a …