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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Elfering, Achim
• Grebner, Simone

Titel

A Smile is Just a Smile: But Only for Men. Sex Differences in Meaning of Faces Scales

Ist Teil von

• Journal of happiness studies, 2010-04, Vol.11 (2), p.179-191

Ort / Verlag

Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands

Erscheinungsjahr

2010

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Quelle

Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This study tests psychometrics of the faces scale that is often used in organizational psychology to assess emotions, attitudes, and well-being. In analyzing 10,584 two-categorical judgments (“sad” versus “happy”) of 11 faces from 72 participants, women judged a face with a horizontal line as mouth (“neutral face”) more often sad than happy and significantly more often sad than men did. Moreover, women adapted their judgments to the range of faces under study in showing a significant contrast effect. In a range of neutral to bright smiling faces a face showing a mild smile was judged to be sad, while in a range of neutral to heavy griming faces a mild grim was judged to be happy. Sex differences in meaning of faces within faces scales and their implications for the use of the faces scale in work and organizational psychology are discussed.