Emotion recognition from expressions in voice and face – Behavioral and Endocrinological evidence – Emotion recognition is a key component of human social cognition and is considered vital for many domains of life. Studies measuring this ability have documented that performance accuracy in emotion recognition tasks is affected by various factors ranging from gender one’s own confidence hormonal fluctuations to the modality of stimulus presentation (i.e. audio visual). The majority of work has focused on the recognition of facial expressions. The results from the small amount of studies that made comparisons across the modalities of vocal and facial emotion recognition are contradict...