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Stimulus Gender and Emotional Difficulty Level

Their Effect on Recognition of Facial Expressions of Affect in Children With and Without LD

Lilly Dimitrovsky

Bar-Ilan University in Israel, dimi{at}netvision.net.il

Hedva Spector

Bar-Ilan University

Rachel Levy-Shiff

Bar-Ilan University

The ability to recognize emotions that were easily identifiable and those that were more difficult to identify, as expressed by male and female faces, was studied in 48 nondisabled children and 76 children with learning disabilities (LD) ages 9 through 12. On the basis of their performance on the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test and the Benton Visual Retention Test, the LD group was divided into three subgroups: those with verbal (VD), nonverbal (NVD), and both verbal and nonverbal (BD) deficits. A shortened version of Ekman and Friesen's Pictures of Facial Affect, including pictures of both men and women, was the measure of ability to identify facial expressions of affect. Children of both genders in all three groups of children with LD, as well as their normally achieving peers, were more accurate in identifying expressions of affect from female faces, notwithstanding differences in sensitivity to such emotional communication in favor of the nondisabled and VD groups. However, a significant interaction was found between gender and emotional recognition difficulty level, with female faces being more expressive for emotions that were difficult to recognize.

Journal of Learning Disabilities, Vol. 33, No. 5, 410-416 (2000)
DOI: 10.1177/002221940003300501
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