Investigating gender differences in temporal dynamics during an iterated social dilemma: An automatic analysis using networks

Emotions have a temporal nature and very often personality traits and underlying psychological conditions are hidden in the dynamics of those expressions. Within this work, we investigate the dynamics of the facial displays of dyads during an iterated social dilemma. We focus on the effect of gender and gender-pairing on those behaviors. We use networks to capture the temporal dynamics and create measures of inter- and intra-personal dependencies of emotional states. Our analysis on an iterated prisoner's dilemma corpus suggests that there are gender differences on the transitions of the emotional states and the degree of emotional influence from the opponent.