Angry, disgusted, or afraid? Studies on the malleability of emotion perception
Angry, disgusted, or afraid? Studies on the malleability of emotion perception
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02148.x
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发表时间：
2008-07-01
影响因子：
8.2
通讯作者：
Bentin, Shlomo
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作者：
Aviezer, Hillel;Hassin, Ran R.;Bentin, Shlomo
目前的情绪感知理论假设，基本的面部表情是绝对离散的情绪信号，或者是价位和唤醒的情感维度。在这两种情况下，信息都被认为是以一种在很大程度上不受背景影响的方式直接从面部“读出”的。相比之下，这里报道的三项研究表明，相同的脸型传达的情感和维度价值明显不同，这取决于它们所处的情感环境。该效果由目标面部表情和通常与上下文相关联的面部表情之间的相似性来调制。此外，通过监测眼睛运动，我们证明了以前被认为完全由面部表情决定的特征注视模式，在视觉加工的非常早期阶段就已经受到情绪环境的系统调节，甚至到第一次注视面部时也是如此。我们的结果表明，对基本面部表情的感知不是上下文不变的，可以在早期感知水平上被上下文绝对地改变。
Current theories of emotion perception posit that basic facial expressions signal categorically discrete emotions or affective dimensions of valence and arousal. In both cases, the information is thought to be directly "read out" from the face in a way that is largely immune to context. In contrast, the three studies reported here demonstrated that identical facial configurations convey strikingly different emotions and dimensional values depending on the affective context in which they are embedded. This effect is modulated by the similarity between the target facial expression and the facial expression typically associated with the context. Moreover, by monitoring eye movements, we demonstrated that characteristic fixation patterns previously thought to be determined solely by the facial expression are systematically modulated by emotional context already at very early stages of visual processing, even by the first time the face is fixated. Our results indicate that the perception of basic facial expressions is not context invariant and can be categorically altered by context at early perceptual levels.