Face the Noise: Embodied Responses to Nonverbal Vocalizations of Discrete Emotions
Face the Noise: Embodied Responses to Nonverbal Vocalizations of Discrete Emotions
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DOI：
10.1037/a0026234
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发表时间：
2012-04-01
影响因子：
7.6
通讯作者：
Van Kleef, Gerben A.
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作者：
Hawk, Skyler T.;Fischer, Agneta H.;Van Kleef, Gerben A.
大量的先前研究表明，情绪面部表情的感知自动地在观察者中产生相应的面部表情。然而，具身情感理论表明，这种反应也可能发生在表达渠道上，因为模拟是基于对该情感的综合运动和情感表征。在目前的研究中，我们通过关注非语言情感发声的面部和经验反应来检验这一观点。在研究1和2中，我们发现，听到和再现愤怒、厌恶、快乐和悲伤的声音都会导致特定的面部行为，以及一致的自我报告情绪（研究2）。在研究3和研究4中，我们表明，对一致面部动作的抑制会损害听众对情感发声的处理（研究3），以及他们对一致主观状态的体验（研究4）。结果支持的想法，跨通道模拟他人的状态服务的促进功能类似于更严格的模仿所观察到的表达行为，这表明灵活性的运动和情感系统参与情绪处理和人际情绪转移。我们讨论了体现研究的影响和社会后果的表达和匹配的情绪通过非语言渠道。
Extensive prior research has shown that the perception of an emotional facial expression automatically elicits a corresponding facial expression in the observer. Theories of embodied emotion, however, suggest that such reactions might also occur across expressive channels, because simulation is based on integrated motoric and affective representations of that emotion. In the present studies, we examined this idea by focusing on facial and experiential reactions to nonverbal emotion vocalizations. In Studies 1 and 2, we showed that both hearing and reproducing vocalizations of anger, disgust, happiness, and sadness resulted in specific facial behaviors, as well as congruent self-reported emotions (Study 2). In Studies 3 and 4, we showed that the inhibition of congruent facial actions impaired listeners' processing of emotion vocalizations (Study 3), as well as their experiences of a concordant subjective state (Study 4). Results support the idea that cross-channel simulations of others' states serve facilitative functions similar to more strict imitations of observed expressive behavior, suggesting flexibility in the motoric and affective systems involved in emotion processing and interpersonal emotion transfer. We discuss implications for embodiment research and the social consequences of expressing and matching emotions across nonverbal channels.