Objective: The study aimed to assess the differences of facial expression recognition between homosexusal males and heterosexual males. Methods: Using self-reported sexual orientation to select 10 homosexual and 15 heterosexual. Experiment 1,used the present-judge paradigm experiments, in which participants were asked to judge four(anger, disgust, happy, peace) expressions. Experiment 2, three types of facial expression(anger, happy, peace) were divided into eye, nose and mouth interest area, participants were assessed on their focus of facial information by applying of eye movement technique. Results: In experiment 1, sexual orientation and expression types showed main effects on facial expression recognition. In experiment 2, Gay men were take more attention to the eyes, and expression type also showed main effect on the interest of face regions. Conclusion: Homosexual males display more accuracy to recognize the facial expression, and seem to be more interested at the eye regions compared with heterosexual males.
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