When navigating, individuals are exposed to a vast amount of information. However, some cues may be more relevant than others. Although the mechanisms underlying orientational skills and the effects of emotion processing on cognitive processes have been well-studied, little is known about the effects of processing others' emotions on spatial navigation. This research aims to fill this gap while considering gender differences, with approximately 1000 participants. In Experiment 1, participants navigated three virtual environments twice. The first time was to find an object, and the second time was to recall the path to reach it. Between the two phases, participants performed a gender categorisation task of faces showing neutral, fearful, or angry expressions. The results showed that fearful faces impaired males' navigation performance, whereas females were unaffected. Experiments 2 and 3 expanded this research to include different emotional stimuli (i.e., bodies or contexts) and found no impact on wayfinding. In Experiment 4, we investigated the effect of emotion processing on navigation domains. The results showed that processing fearful faces (and to a lesser extent angry faces) impaired males' performance and enhanced females' performance, but only in specific domains. Experiment 5 extended the research to visuospatial skills essential for navigation and face processing. The study evaluated whether processing negative emotions during a visuospatial task (Delayed Non-Match to Sample Task, DNMS) affects performance on a subsequent visuospatial task (Backward Corsi Block Tapping Task, CBT). The results showed that participants' performance in the DNMS task decreased with fearful faces (compared to angry or neutral faces). However, only male participants showed decreased performance in the following CBT, which might be due to gender differences in cognitive load management. This dissertation highlights the link between emotion processing and navigation, suggesting face, emotion, and gender-specific effects.