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ReviewJournal of Intelligence2025

Gender and Accuracy in Decoding Affect Cues: A Meta-Analysis.

Judith A Hall, Sarah D Gunnery, Katja Schlegel

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Review in Journal of Intelligence, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Effects of alcohol on emotion recognition: An alcohol-administration trial.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Judith A HallDepartment of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Sarah D GunneryDepartment of Psychology, New England College, Henniker, NH 03242, USA.ORCID 0009-0006-0797-0810
Katja SchlegelInstitute of Psychology, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-3768-5544

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gender differences in understanding the meanings of affect cues, often labeled emotion recognition, have been studied for over a century. Past reviews of the literature have concluded that girls and women score higher than boys and men on tests of accuracy in decoding affect cues, which are most often tested in the cue modalities of face, body, and content-free voice. The present meta-analysis updates knowledge on this topic by including many more studies (1188 effect sizes in 1011 studies; total

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affectcuesdecodingemotion recognitiongender

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PMID40137070
PMCPMC11943105

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