Female children and adolescents recognize vocal emotions more accurately than males, with no interaction between sex and age¶
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Evidence · 1 study · associationalr2·q3
Currency · newest study 2018 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2023: baselines and conditions change
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q3 i? Females obtained significantly higher scores than males (83.2 ± 6.2% vs 80.3 ± 6.7%), and the sex effect did not interact with age. → Grosbras 2018
Evidence¶
Grosbras 2018¶
Grosbras, M.-H., Ross, P. D. & Belin, P. (2018). Categorical emotion recognition from voice improves during childhood and adolescence. Scientific Reports 8, 14791. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-32868-3
q3 · i? · associational · r2
Post-hoc comparison within the developmental sample of 225 participants in the forced-choice vocal emotion task. The article prints means and a t statistic but no standardized effect size, so impact is null.
"This was explained by females having significantly higher scores than males (83.2 +/− 6.2% vs 80.3 ± 6.7%, post-hoc t(223) = 3.27, CI = [1.1: 4.5]; p = 0.0012)."
Discussion¶
Learner Variables¶
- Gender — predictor: outcomes differ by group: a gap reflecting circumstances and treatment, not a cause
Related Claims¶
- Children's average vocal emotion recognition performance is significantly below the adult group's average — related
- Happiness is the easiest vocal emotion to recognize and anger the hardest, with anger and fear showing the greatest age-related improvement — related
- Testing procedure (individual computer with headphones vs small-group loudspeaker with paper response) does not affect vocal emotion recognition performance or the developmental trajectory — related
- Male and female WM growth trajectories do not differ: sex-by-age interactions are non-significant after multiple-comparison correction — related
- The ability to identify basic emotions from non-linguistic vocal bursts improves significantly with age from 5 to 17 years — related
- Female participants showed higher metacognitive ability than male participants — related
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female-advantage-vocal-emotion-recognition-stable |
title |
Female children and adolescents recognize vocal emotions more accurately than males, with no interaction between sex and age |
description |
Female children and adolescents recognize vocal emotions more accurately than males, with no interaction between sex and age |
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review |
evidence_strength |
moderate |
newest_evidence |
2018 |
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2023 |
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by process:wiki-ingest on 2026-10-17 |
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1 — grosbras-2018 |
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