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Recognition of facial expression is one of the factors ensuring a person’s social competence It is a known that women cope with this task somewhat more successfully than men McClure, 2000 This may occur because women and men could rely on different mechanisms of face perception, namely females are more successful using feature based processing and extraction of second order relations (the distances among face features) so than males The question of facial expression recognition mechanisms and their universal or gender specific character is on the day’s agenda We studied recognition of facial expression in female and male adults using eye tracking technology.