The purpose of this research is to examine the emotional competences in the general population, with regard to their recognition of different facial expressions of emotion.
This research compared knowledge of people to label emotion from a given list, as well as the abilities to accurately recognise facial expression from pictures following accessing their confidence in the answer they give.
This study finds to be partly consistent with previous studies showing almost linear improvement in the performance to accurately identify facial expression of emotions prior to mid-adulthood, followed by an evident decline in older age.
Each specific emotion shoved different developmental paths as well as different impact in the ability within gender and education that contribute to emotion recognition achievement.
Gender impact on performance showed consistency with existing literature shoving no difference in performance when the highest intensity of facial expression of emotion is displayed.
Moreover, this article reports a difference in the education level of respondents who label facial expression of emotion accurately. Bachelor’s degree and Master’s degree is a level of education which prevails among those who label expressions accurately, while lover educational level, an interquartile range from Secondary education or high school to Master’s degree, was among those who did not label expressions accurately. Particularly expression of contempt was one where attribution of respondents was least accurate.
