caa a22 4500 606232419 CHVBK 20210128101226.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10508-014-0466-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10508-014-0466-0 Lateralization for Processing Facial Emotions in Gay Men, Heterosexual Men, and Heterosexual Women [Elektronische Daten] [Qazi Rahman, Sifat Yusuf] This study tested whether male sexual orientation and gender nonconformity influenced functional cerebral lateralization for the processing of facial emotions. We also tested for the effects of sex of poser and emotion displayed on putative differences. Thirty heterosexual men, 30 heterosexual women, and 40 gay men completed measures of demographic variables, recalled childhood gender nonconformity (CGN), IQ, and the Chimeric Faces Test (CFT). The CFT depicts vertically split chimeric faces, formed with one half showing a neutral expression and the other half showing an emotional expression and performance is measured using a "laterality quotient” (LQ) score. We found that heterosexual men were significantly more right-lateralized when viewing female faces compared to heterosexual women and gay men, who did not differ significantly from each other. Heterosexual women and gay men were more left-lateralized for processing female faces. There were no significant group differences in lateralization for male faces. These results remained when controlling for age and IQ scores. There was no significant effect of CGN on LQ scores. These data suggest that gay men are feminized in some aspects of functional cerebral lateralization for facial emotion. The results were discussed in relation to the selectivity of functional lateralization and putative brain mechanisms underlying sexual attraction towards opposite-sex and same-sex targets. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2014 Sexual orientation nationallicence Childhood gender nonconformity nationallicence Functional cerebral lateralization nationallicence Chimeric Faces Test nationallicence Rahman Qazi Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, 5th Floor, Bermondsey Wing, Guy's Hospital Campus, SE1 9RT, London, UK aut Yusuf Sifat Biological and Experimental Psychology Group, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK aut Archives of Sexual Behavior Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 44/5(2015-07-01), 1405-1413 0004-0002 44:5<1405 2015 44 10508 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-014-0466-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-014-0466-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rahman Qazi Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, 5th Floor, Bermondsey Wing, Guy's Hospital Campus, SE1 9RT, London, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Yusuf Sifat Biological and Experimental Psychology Group, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Archives of Sexual Behavior Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 44/5(2015-07-01), 1405-1413 0004-0002 44:5<1405 2015 44 10508