Sexual Orientation May Affect the Intensity of Facial Emotions Required for Correct Emotion Detection in Women

Studies suggest facial emotion recognition may be associated with sexual orientation. Two studies examined emotion recognition accuracy and detection in women across six emotions (S1: n = 105 heterosexual/39 sexual minority; S2: n = 112 heterosexual/36 sexual minority). Sexual minority women recognized happy emotions at lower intensities than heterosexual women.