a 2014 study plus meta-analysis published in the journal "plos one" with a sample size of 8979 participants found higher overall score by females on all facets of ability emotional intelligence. the analysis was conducted by researchers magdalena śmieja, jarosław orzechowski and maciej s. stolarski in various universities across poland. they also found in another study that although genders were equally adept at detecting consistency with basic emotions, women were superior at detecting deception in both basic emotion and inconsistent emotions conditions or in other words complex and subtle emotions. the deviation size differences were 0.32 and the researchers attributed this to women's greater emotional intelligence.