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A jury of six women and five men picked Carine Felizardo among 15 finalists in the second annual edition of the contest, “Miss Bumbum”, held in a Sao Paulo. Andressa Urach, another 25-year-old model from the southern state of Santa Catarina finished second while 21-year-old Camila Vernaglia from Sao Paulo state was third. “I’m very happy with the victory. I was confident because I know I’m in my best shape right now,” said Ms. Felizardo. “I expect much change for the better from now on.” Pageant organizer Cacau Oliver, a well-known female beauty spotter, said: “I think that the tropical climate, the carnival and all this racial mixing gives the Brazilian woman a unique bio-type on the planet.” He continued: “The Brazilian woman’s derriere is a part of the body that the whole world admires and the contest just reaffirms this.” 25-year-old Carine Felizardo, who receives R$5,000 (approximately $2,560) in prize money, has reportedly accepted an invitation to pose nude for the cover of Sexy magazine’s January 2013 issue. Asked what makes a woman sexy, the pageant winner replied: “Women have to love yourself.”

It was tested whether professional actors would be able to communicate emotional meaning via facial expression when this is presented to judges without context information. Forty takes were selected from movies, depicting a female or a male actor in close-up showing facial expression.

These close-ups were selected by two expert judges, who knew the complete movie and had to agree on the emotion expressed or expected to be expressed by the female or male actor in the respective take. Five takes each were selected to represent the basic emotions of joy, sadness, fear, and anger.

Twenty takes each were selected showing female and male actors. These 40 takes (edited in random order onto video tape) were presented to 90 judges (about half female and half male; about half younger pupils and about half older ones), whose task it was to judge the emotion(s) expressed on nine 5-point-emotion scales.

Results indicated that female actors are somewhat better (though not statistically significant) in communicating emotion via facial expression without context than male actors are. Furthermore, significant interactions between portrayed emotion and gender of actors were found:

While recognition rate for joy is very high and identical for both genders, female actors seem to be superior in communicating fear and sadness via facial expression, while male actors are more successful in communicating anger.

A ldquodisplay rulerdquo approach seems to be appropriate for the interpretation of these results, indicating that gender-specific attempts to control/inhibit certain emotions do not only exist in ldquoreal liferdquo, but also in movies.

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