Women outperform men in distinguishing between authentic and nonauthentic smiles
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In: Journal of Social Psychology, Vol. 158, No. 5, 03.09.2018, p. 574-579.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Women outperform men in distinguishing between authentic and nonauthentic smiles
AU - Spies, Maren
AU - Sevincer, A. Timur
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2018, © 2018 Taylor & Francis.
PY - 2018/9/3
Y1 - 2018/9/3
N2 - Women tend to be more accurate in decoding facial expressions than men. We hypothesized that women’s better performance in decoding facial expressions extends to distinguishing between authentic and nonauthentic smiles. We showed participants portrait photos of persons who smiled because either they saw a pleasant picture (authentic smile) or were instructed to smile by the experimenter (nonauthentic smile) and asked them to identify the smiles. Participants judged single photos of persons depicting either an authentic or a nonauthentic smile, and they judged adjacent photos of the same person depicting an authentic smile and a nonauthentic smile. Women outperformed men in identifying the smiles when judging the adjacent photos. We discuss implications for judging smile authenticity in real life and limitations for the observed sex difference.
AB - Women tend to be more accurate in decoding facial expressions than men. We hypothesized that women’s better performance in decoding facial expressions extends to distinguishing between authentic and nonauthentic smiles. We showed participants portrait photos of persons who smiled because either they saw a pleasant picture (authentic smile) or were instructed to smile by the experimenter (nonauthentic smile) and asked them to identify the smiles. Participants judged single photos of persons depicting either an authentic or a nonauthentic smile, and they judged adjacent photos of the same person depicting an authentic smile and a nonauthentic smile. Women outperformed men in identifying the smiles when judging the adjacent photos. We discuss implications for judging smile authenticity in real life and limitations for the observed sex difference.
KW - Authentic smile
KW - Duchenne marker
KW - emotion recognition
KW - facial expression
KW - sex difference
KW - Psychology
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U2 - 10.1080/00224545.2017.1409187
DO - 10.1080/00224545.2017.1409187
M3 - Comments / Debate / Reports
C2 - 29182453
AN - SCOPUS:85041098798
VL - 158
SP - 574
EP - 579
JO - Journal of Social Psychology
JF - Journal of Social Psychology
SN - 0022-4545
IS - 5
ER -