Investigate the relationship between emotion recognition (basic and complex) and altruistic behaviors base on gender among twins

The present study was designed and conducted by the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between emotion recognition (basic and complex) and altruistic behaviors among twins base on gender.  

The method is descriptive – correlation and the entire population of the study consisted of all twins at Tehran city, Out of this population 80 (40 pair mz and 40 pair dz) pairs were Voluntary selected. To collect data, The Cambridge Mindreading (CAM) Face-Voice Battery, Reading the Mind in the Eyes Task (RMET), and the Self-report altruism sale was used. The data obtained were analyzed using Pearson correlation analysis and multivariate analysis of variance.

  The results showed that there was a positive significant correlation between altruistic behaviors and basic emotion recognition and there wasn’t a significant correlation between altruistic behaviors and complex emotion recognition and there weren’t significant differences in the variables of the altruistic behaviors between male and female twins and also there was a significant positive correlation between emotion recognition and theory of mind.

That is, emotion recognition and altruism are both centered on an individual thinking about others, and accordingly those with high emotion recognition ability to show more altruistic behavior.