Date of Last Revision
2023-05-03 05:11:57
Major
Psychology
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Date of Expected Graduation
Spring 2018
Abstract
The purpose of this research project was examine the following question: Do men and women respond differently, on a neurophysiological level, to stimuli that elicit an emotional valence? Participants completed an emotional expression face identification task in which participants made speeded responses to angry, happy, and neutral emotional faces. Behavioral and event-related potential (ERP) methods were utilized to examine emotion processing differences between females and males and whether those differences were associated with emotional arousal or emotion regulation differences. Results indicated that females and males did not differ in accuracy or response time. Furthermore, there were no observable differences in the P1 ERP waveform reflecting emotional arousal or the P3 waveform reflecting emotional regulation between female and male adults. Therefore, we did not find evidence for differential emotional arousal and emotion regulation processes between females and males.
Research Sponsor
Dr. Kevin Kaut
First Reader
Dr. Philip Allen
Second Reader
Dr. James Houston
Recommended Citation
Wiswesser, Natalie; Houston, James PhD; and Allen, Philip PhD, "An Electrophysiological Study on Sex-Related Differences in Emotion Perception" (2018). Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects. 749.
https://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/honors_research_projects/749