Is Fear in Your Head? A Comparison of Instructed and Real-Life Expressions of Emotion in the Face and Body
Is Fear in Your Head? A Comparison of Instructed and Real-Life Expressions of Emotion in the Face and Body
复制标题
你的脑海里有恐惧吗？
作者：
Lior Abramson;Inbal Marom;Rotem Petranker;Hillel Aviezer
大多数情绪感知研究都利用面部或身体的指导性和刻板表达。虽然这种刺激是高度标准化的并且得到了广泛认可，但它们与现实生活中情感表达的相似之处仍然未知。在这里，我们检查了现实生活中恐惧和愤怒的面部和身体表情，并将它们的识别与相同情绪的指导表达进行了比较。为了检查情感信号的来源，情感的表达被呈现为单独的面孔、单独的身体，并且自然地，作为带有身体的面孔。结果表明，对指令刺激和现实生活刺激的识别之间存在显着差异，其差异随着所表达的情绪而变化。在现实生活中令人恐惧的情感表达中，身体比面孔更容易被识别，而在受指导的情感表达中却找不到这种模式。在现实生活和指导性刺激中，从身体上比从脸上更好地识别愤怒反应。然而，总体而言，现实生活中的刺激比受指导的刺激更容易被识别。这些结果表明，指导性情感表达和现实生活中的情感表达之间存在普遍差异，并提醒人们不要过度依赖指导性情感刺激。研究结果还表明，在现实生活中，面部表情感知可能在很大程度上依赖于来自情境化身体的信息。
The majority of emotion perception studies utilize instructed and stereotypical expressions of faces or bodies. While such stimuli are highly standardized and well-recognized, their resemblance to real-life expressions of emotion remains unknown. Here we examined facial and body expressions of fear and anger during real-life situations and compared their recognition to that of instructed expressions of the same emotions. In order to examine the source of the affective signal, expressions of emotion were presented as faces alone, bodies alone, and naturally, as faces with bodies. The results demonstrated striking deviations between recognition of instructed and real-life stimuli, which differed as a function of the emotion expressed. In real-life fearful expressions of emotion, bodies were far better recognized than faces, a pattern not found with instructed expressions of emotion. Anger reactions were better recognized from the body than from the face in both real-life and instructed stimuli. However, the real-life stimuli were overall better recognized than their instructed counterparts. These results indicate that differences between instructed and real-life expressions of emotion are prevalent and raise caution against an overreliance of researchers on instructed affective stimuli. The findings also demonstrate that in real life, facial expression perception may rely heavily on information from the contextualizing body.
影响因子：
11.3
作者：
Thoma, Patrizia;Bauser, Denise Soria;Suchan, Boris
通讯作者：
Suchan, Boris