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Equal numbers of male and female participants judged which of seven facial expressions (anger, disgust, fear, happiness, neutrality, sadness, and surprise) were displayed by a set of 336 faces, and we measured both accuracy and response times. In addition, the participants rated how well the expression was displayed (i.e., the intensity of the expression). These three measures are reported for each face. Sex of the rater did not interact with any of the three measures. However, analyses revealed that some expressions were recognized more accurately in female than in male faces. The full set of these norms may be downloaded fromwww.psychonomic.org/archive/.
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Palermo, R., Coltheart, M. Photographs of facial expression: Accuracy, response times, and ratings of intensity. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers 36, 634–638 (2004). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03206544
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