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Gender differences in relations between the Dark Tetrad and emotion recognition accuracy

Emotion recognition plays a significant role in everyday life, and the evidence of gender differences in emotion recognition accuracy is somewhat mixed. Moreover, some personality traits (i.e. Dark Tetrad traits: Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy, sadism), which are generally found to be more pronounced in males than in females, are linked to specific deficits in emotion recognition. Therefore, the aim of this study is to further investigate gender differences in relations between the Dark Tetrad traits and emotion recognition accuracy. After completing on-line versions of The Short Dark Triad and The Assessment of Sadistic Personality, participants (N=144, 57% female, Mage=22.18, SDage=2.26) took part in an emotion recognition task which consisted of photographs showing six basic emotions from The Karolinska Directed Emotional Faces (KDEF). The results of regression analyses showed that, although the percentage of explained variance in recognition accuracy of all six emotions was modest (up to 26%), the Dark Tetrad contributed more to an explanation of emotion recognition accuracy in males than in females. Moreover, some specific gender differences in relations between the Dark Tetrad and recognition accuracy emerged: Machiavellianism negatively predicted disgust recognition accuracy in males and positively in females, and narcissism positively predicted happiness recognition accuracy only in males. Generally, the results showed some interesting patterns, highlighting gender differences in the relations between the Dark Tetrad and emotion recognition accuracy.

Dark Tetrad ; gender differences ; emotion recognition ; KDEF

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