Television reflects all kinds of vestigial double standards, and an enduring one is the different perception of anger: a man's wrath often signals passion or zeal; a woman's rage or orneriness borders on crazy.
In particular, the potential role and neuroanatomical underpinnings of the right posterior region in relation to perception of anger and the left posterior region in relation to cognitive appraisals, and how these systems may be related to anger expression, warrant further investigation.
In contrast, activity in cortical areas endowed with mirror properties, like left Broca's area for the perception of speech, and in the processing of emotions like the left anterior insula for the perception of disgust and the orbitofrontal cortex for the perception of anger, is reduced for robot stimuli, suggesting lesser resonance with the mechanical agent.
Controlling for academic ability, however, eliminated all but one group difference: the difference in auditory perception of anger.
Similar effects have also been reported in humans, especially with regard to aggression and the perception of anger [ 6].
Though requiring replication, findings suggest that ANX + ADHD relates to greater cognitive and academic vulnerability than ANX, but may relate to reduced perception of anger.
Findings suggest that ANX + ADHD relates to greater cognitive and academic vulnerability than ANX, especially with respect to working memory, but may relate to reduced perception of anger.
On analyses of variance, groups differed on academic functioning (Wide Range Achievement Test, p <.001), perception of emotion (auditory perception of anger, p <.05), and working memory (backwards digits, p <.01; backwards finger windows, p <.05; Chipasat task, p <.001).
ANX + ADHD and children with ADHD did poorly relative to controls on all differentiating measures except auditory perception of anger, where ANX + ADHD showed less sensitivity than children with ANX or with ADHD.
Our continuous measure of anxiety (MASC) was also correlated with perception of auditory anger.
