Research On Face Recognition Affected By Facial Expression And Gender

Expression is the external manifestation of emotion and consists of facial expression, vocal expression and body expression. Facial expression can carry the largest information and is considered as important clues to identify other people’s emotion, and as tool in interpersonal communication. Facial expression has played an important role in our social life and daily communication, so it has important research significance and practical value.Recently, the researches on the face recognition focus on face inversion effect, race effect and gender effect. Recognition of facial expression and gender are not independent, the gender stereotypes about gender expression exists under the background of western culture and eastern culture, which consider that women are emotional and more often show sadness, joy and fear, whereas men are rational and more often show anger and disgust. Participant gender also affect the face recognition tasks, Some studies suggest that women performance better than men in the face recognition, such as face recognition tasks, memory faces and episodic memory tasks. The purpose of this experiment is to research on face recognition affected by facial expression and gender. Results of this research are as follows:(l)Facial expression have a very significant impact on face recognition tasks,accuracy rate is highest and the react time is shortest when subjects indentify joy expression.(2) Sex of face have a very significant impact on the tasks of subjects indentify facial expression,accuracy rate is higher and the react time is shorter when subjects indentify men ’facial expression than women’ facial expression.(3)The main effect of Participant gender has not significant impact on face recognition tasks.(4)Facial expression and sex of face have significant interaction effects on facial recognition tasks, specifically, subjects incline to consider that there are closer relation between the masculine characteristics of faces with anger expression, feminine features of faces and joy expression.(5)The order of experimental material presented has not significant effects on facial recognition tasks.