East Asian Young and Older Adult Perceptions of Emotional Faces From an Age- and Sex-Fair East Asian Facial Expression Database
East Asian Young and Older Adult Perceptions of Emotional Faces From an Age- and Sex-Fair East Asian Facial Expression Database
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DOI：
10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02358
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发表时间：
2018-11
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Yu-Zhen Tu;Dong-Wei Lin;Atsunobu Suzuki;J. Goh
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作者：
Yu-Zhen Tu;Dong-Wei Lin;Atsunobu Suzuki;J. Goh
越来越多的人对不同文化背景、不同年龄和性别的人如何感知不同的面部情绪表达感兴趣。然而，来自非西方人群的控制良好的面部情绪刺激的可用性很少，限制了对面部情绪感知的文化差异以及年龄和性别差异如何调节这种差异的评估。我们提供了一个东亚面部表情刺激数据库，由年轻人和老年人、男性和女性、台湾人使用面部动作编码系统（FACS）制定。结合先前的数据库，本数据库由90个具有快乐、悲伤、愤怒、恐惧、厌恶、惊讶和中性表情的身份组成，共计628张照片。20名年轻人和24名年长的东亚评分员对照片进行了多维度情绪和诱导情感的强度评分。多变量分析的特点是感知情绪的维度和量化的年龄和性别的影响。我们还应用商业软件来提取照片中基于计算机的情感指标。台湾评分员认为快乐的表情是一类，悲伤，愤怒和厌恶的表情是一类，恐惧和惊讶的表情是一类。年轻女性比年轻男性对面部情绪更敏感。然而，老年男性表现出减少面部情绪的敏感性，老年女性的敏感性是类似的或强调相对于年轻女性。商业软件根据FACS分离出六种情绪，证明存在定义视觉特征。我们的研究结果表明，东亚人在面部识别软件中感知到的情绪维度与基于西方的定义不同，无论年龄和性别如何。重要的是，详细的文化规范的刺激是不可或缺的，在解释涉及人类面部表情处理的神经和行为反应。为此，我们增加了工具，可应要求提供，进行这种研究。
There is increasing interest in clarifying how different face emotion expressions are perceived by people from different cultures, of different ages and sex. However, scant availability of well-controlled emotional face stimuli from non-Western populations limit the evaluation of cultural differences in face emotion perception and how this might be modulated by age and sex differences. We present a database of East Asian face expression stimuli, enacted by young and older, male and female, Taiwanese using the Facial Action Coding System (FACS). Combined with a prior database, this present database consists of 90 identities with happy, sad, angry, fearful, disgusted, surprised and neutral expressions amounting to 628 photographs. Twenty young and 24 older East Asian raters scored the photographs for intensities of multiple-dimensions of emotions and induced affect. Multivariate analyses characterized the dimensionality of perceived emotions and quantified effects of age and sex. We also applied commercial software to extract computer-based metrics of emotions in photographs. Taiwanese raters perceived happy faces as one category, sad, angry, and disgusted expressions as one category, and fearful and surprised expressions as one category. Younger females were more sensitive to face emotions than younger males. Whereas, older males showed reduced face emotion sensitivity, older female sensitivity was similar or accentuated relative to young females. Commercial software dissociated six emotions according to the FACS demonstrating that defining visual features were present. Our findings show that East Asians perceive a different dimensionality of emotions than Western-based definitions in face recognition software, regardless of age and sex. Critically, stimuli with detailed cultural norms are indispensable in interpreting neural and behavioral responses involving human facial expression processing. To this end, we add to the tools, which are available upon request, for conducting such research.