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Self-Relevance Appraisal Influences Facial Reactions to Emotional Body Expressions

People display facial reactions when exposed to others' emotional expressions, but exactly what mechanism mediates these facial reactions remains a debated issue. In this study, we manipulated two critical perceptual features that contribute to determining the significance of others' emoti...

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Autores principales: Grèzes, Julie, Philip, Léonor, Chadwick, Michèle, Dezecache, Guillaume, Soussignan, Robert, Conty, Laurence
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3566069/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23405230
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0055885
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author Grèzes, Julie
Philip, Léonor
Chadwick, Michèle
Dezecache, Guillaume
Soussignan, Robert
Conty, Laurence
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description People display facial reactions when exposed to others' emotional expressions, but exactly what mechanism mediates these facial reactions remains a debated issue. In this study, we manipulated two critical perceptual features that contribute to determining the significance of others' emotional expressions: the direction of attention (toward or away from the observer) and the intensity of the emotional display. Electromyographic activity over the corrugator muscle was recorded while participants observed videos of neutral to angry body expressions. Self-directed bodies induced greater corrugator activity than other-directed bodies; additionally corrugator activity was only influenced by the intensity of anger expresssed by self-directed bodies. These data support the hypothesis that rapid facial reactions are the outcome of self-relevant emotional processing.
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spelling pubmed-35660692013-02-12 Self-Relevance Appraisal Influences Facial Reactions to Emotional Body Expressions Grèzes, Julie Philip, Léonor Chadwick, Michèle Dezecache, Guillaume Soussignan, Robert Conty, Laurence PLoS One Research Article People display facial reactions when exposed to others' emotional expressions, but exactly what mechanism mediates these facial reactions remains a debated issue. In this study, we manipulated two critical perceptual features that contribute to determining the significance of others' emotional expressions: the direction of attention (toward or away from the observer) and the intensity of the emotional display. Electromyographic activity over the corrugator muscle was recorded while participants observed videos of neutral to angry body expressions. Self-directed bodies induced greater corrugator activity than other-directed bodies; additionally corrugator activity was only influenced by the intensity of anger expresssed by self-directed bodies. These data support the hypothesis that rapid facial reactions are the outcome of self-relevant emotional processing. Public Library of Science 2013-02-06 /pmc/articles/PMC3566069/ /pubmed/23405230 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0055885 Text en © 2013 Grèzes et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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