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01-09-2008 | Original Article

On the interplay between familiarity and emotional expression in face perception

Auteurs: Christian Dobel, Lena Geiger, Maximilian Bruchmann, Christian Putsche, Stefan R. Schweinberger, Markus Junghöfer

Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research | Uitgave 5/2008

Abstract

Traditional models of face perception (e.g. Bruce and Young 1986) stress independent routes for processing identity and emotional expression. We investigated the interplay between familiarity and emotional expression by systematically varying both factors. In contrast to earlier studies which used binary forced-choice decisions, participants had to judge the familiarity of the presented face and the emotional hedonic valence and emotional arousal of its expressed emotion (angry, happy or neutral), using rating scales. The results demonstrated symmetric, strong interactions between familiarity and expressed emotion. Thus, this study supports more recent models of face perception (Haxby et al. 2000) that were mostly based on brain imaging data. These data together with our behavioural results emphasize the interaction of emotional expression and personal identity and support approaches that propose a relative segregation of these processes, rather than completely independent coding (Calder and Young 2005).

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Note, however, that it is difficult to exclude emotional changes due to mere exposure effects.

Emotional expressions were “acted” and might thus not depict “truly felt” emotional expressions. Although this holds true for most research using affective facial expressions as the two most often applied sets of affective facial stimuli contain acted emotional expressions (Ekman and Friesen (1976). Pictures of facial affect. Palo Alto, California: Consulting Psychologists Press; The Karolinska Directed Emotional Faces; http://www.facialstimuli.com) we can not exclude the hypothesis that pictures of “truly felt” emotional expressions could lead to different results.

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Titel: On the interplay between familiarity and emotional expression in face perception
Auteurs: Christian Dobel
Lena Geiger
Maximilian Bruchmann
Christian Putsche
Stefan R. Schweinberger
Markus Junghöfer
Publicatiedatum: 01-09-2008
Uitgeverij: Springer-Verlag
Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research / Uitgave 5/2008
Print ISSN: 0340-0727
Elektronisch ISSN: 1430-2772
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-007-0132-4

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