Holistic Person Processing: Faces With Bodies Tell the Whole Story
Holistic Person Processing: Faces With Bodies Tell the Whole Story
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DOI：
10.1037/a0027411
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发表时间：
2012-07-01
影响因子：
7.6
通讯作者：
Todorov, Alexander
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作者：
Aviezer, Hillel;Trope, Yaacov;Todorov, Alexander
脸和身体通常是同时出现的，但很少有研究探索整个人的视觉处理。具体来说，我们不知道脸和身体是被视为不同的组成部分，还是被视为一个完整的、格式塔式的单位。为了检验这个问题，我们研究了情绪面部身体合成是否以一种类似整体的方式被处理，通过使用合成面部任务的一种变体，这是一种整体处理的测量方法。参与者判断面部表情与情绪一致或不一致的身体相结合，这些身体已被证明会影响面部情绪的识别。关键的是，这些脸要么以自然的姿势与身体对齐，要么以一种破坏生态人形态的方式错位。3个实验数据的收敛证实，人格形态的打破降低了一致的身体语境对面部情绪识别的促进作用，降低了不一致的身体语境对面部情绪识别的阻碍作用。这些结果表明，脸和身体是作为一个整体来处理的，这支持了复合人效应的概念，类似于对脸的经典效应。
Faces and bodies are typically encountered simultaneously, yet little research has explored the visual processing of the full person. Specifically, it is unknown whether the face and body are perceived as distinct components or as an integrated, gestalt-like unit. To examine this question, we investigated whether emotional face body composites are processed in a holistic-like manner by using a variant of the composite face task, a measure of holistic processing. Participants judged facial expressions combined with emotionally congruent or incongruent bodies that have been shown to influence the recognition of emotion from the face. Critically, the faces were either aligned with the body in a natural position or misaligned in a manner that breaks the ecological person form. Converging data from 3 experiments confirm that breaking the person form reduces the facilitating influence of congruent body context as well as the impeding influence of incongruent body context on the recognition of emotion from the face. These results show that faces and bodies are processed as a single unit and support the notion of a composite person effect analogous to the classic effect described for faces.