EMOTIC – Enfacement manipulation in transmitted inter-facial communication

在哲学心理学领域，自我与主体间性的关系是一个争论不休的问题。最近，人们强调，自我意识不仅包括自己和他人之间的区别，而且还包括一个人愿意受到他人的影响。ENFACEMENT效应说明了这种准备：在自己的脸和伴侣的脸同步刺激的情况下，已经表明伴侣的面部特征已经被纳入自我脸表征。在目前的跨学科项目中，并与优先计划中的其他项目合作，我们的目标是：1）在转换的社会互动框架中开发一个实验环境，并构建可以在与受试者的实时互动中操作的个性化面部头像; 2）使用这种方法将enfacement嵌入到动态面部交流过程中，其中可能发生在真实的生活中。通过这样做，我们将探讨自我面孔错觉的可塑性，假设如果意图和情绪相关的面部线索的传输过程是成功的，就会发生修饰。此外，我们假设，传输过程以及enfacement本身将取决于移情的人格特质和身体的吸引力和可信度归因于互动的合作伙伴。最后，我们期望修饰能够促进情感识别和表达能力。

In the field of philosophical psychology, the relation between selfhood and intersubjectivity is currently debated. Recently, it has been stressed that the sense of self does not only include a differentiation between oneself and others, but it also contains the person’s readiness to be affected by others. The ENFACEMENT effect illustrates this readiness: In case of synchronous stimulation of the own face and the face of a partner, it has been shown that the facial features of the partner have been incorporated into the self-face representation. In the present interdisciplinary project and in cooperation with further projects within the priority program, we aim to 1) develop an experimental setting in the framework of Transformed Social Interaction and construct individualized face avatars that can be manipulated in real-time interactions with a subject and 2) to use this methodology to embed enfacement into the dynamic facial communication process in which it may occur in real life. By doing so, we will investigate the plasticity of the self-face illusion, postulating that enfacement would occur if the transmission process of intention and emotion related facial cues is successful. Additionally, we assume that the transmission process as well as enfacement itself will depend on empathetic personality traits and physical attractiveness and trustworthiness attributions to the interacting partner. Finally, we expect enfacement to facilitate emotion recognition and expression abilities.