Cargando…
First Impression Misleads Emotion Recognition
Recognition of others’ emotions is a key life ability that guides one’s own choices and behavior, and it hinges on the recognition of others’ facial cues. Independent studies indicate that facial appearance-based evaluations affect social behavior, but little is known about how facial appearance-bas...
Autores principales: | , , |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
Frontiers Media S.A.
2019
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6435584/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30949088 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00527 |
_version_ | 1783406663956430848 |
---|---|
author | Colonnello, Valentina Russo, Paolo Maria Mattarozzi, Katia |
author_facet | Colonnello, Valentina Russo, Paolo Maria Mattarozzi, Katia |
author_sort | Colonnello, Valentina |
collection | PubMed |
description | Recognition of others’ emotions is a key life ability that guides one’s own choices and behavior, and it hinges on the recognition of others’ facial cues. Independent studies indicate that facial appearance-based evaluations affect social behavior, but little is known about how facial appearance-based trustworthiness evaluations influence the recognition of specific emotions. We tested the hypothesis that first impressions based on facial appearance affect the recognition of basic emotions. A total of 150 participants completed a dynamic emotion recognition task. In a within-subjects design, the participants viewed videos of individuals with trustworthy-looking, neutral, or untrustworthy-looking faces gradually and continuously displaying basic emotions (happiness, anger, fear, and sadness). The participants’ accuracy and speed in recognizing the emotions were measured. Untrustworthy-looking faces decreased participants’ emotion recognition accuracy and speed, across emotion types. In addition, faces that elicited a positive inference of trustworthiness enhanced emotion recognition speed of fear and sadness, emotional expressions that signal another’s distress and modulate prosocial behavior. These findings suggest that facial appearance-based inferences may interfere with the ability to accurately and rapidly recognize others’ basic emotions. |
format | Online Article Text |
id | pubmed-6435584 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2019 |
publisher | Frontiers Media S.A. |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-64355842019-04-04 First Impression Misleads Emotion Recognition Colonnello, Valentina Russo, Paolo Maria Mattarozzi, Katia Front Psychol Psychology Recognition of others’ emotions is a key life ability that guides one’s own choices and behavior, and it hinges on the recognition of others’ facial cues. Independent studies indicate that facial appearance-based evaluations affect social behavior, but little is known about how facial appearance-based trustworthiness evaluations influence the recognition of specific emotions. We tested the hypothesis that first impressions based on facial appearance affect the recognition of basic emotions. A total of 150 participants completed a dynamic emotion recognition task. In a within-subjects design, the participants viewed videos of individuals with trustworthy-looking, neutral, or untrustworthy-looking faces gradually and continuously displaying basic emotions (happiness, anger, fear, and sadness). The participants’ accuracy and speed in recognizing the emotions were measured. Untrustworthy-looking faces decreased participants’ emotion recognition accuracy and speed, across emotion types. In addition, faces that elicited a positive inference of trustworthiness enhanced emotion recognition speed of fear and sadness, emotional expressions that signal another’s distress and modulate prosocial behavior. These findings suggest that facial appearance-based inferences may interfere with the ability to accurately and rapidly recognize others’ basic emotions. Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-03-20 /pmc/articles/PMC6435584/ /pubmed/30949088 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00527 Text en Copyright © 2019 Colonnello, Russo and Mattarozzi. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Colonnello, Valentina Russo, Paolo Maria Mattarozzi, Katia First Impression Misleads Emotion Recognition |
title | First Impression Misleads Emotion Recognition |
title_full | First Impression Misleads Emotion Recognition |
title_fullStr | First Impression Misleads Emotion Recognition |
title_full_unstemmed | First Impression Misleads Emotion Recognition |
title_short | First Impression Misleads Emotion Recognition |
title_sort | first impression misleads emotion recognition |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6435584/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30949088 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00527 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT colonnellovalentina firstimpressionmisleadsemotionrecognition AT russopaolomaria firstimpressionmisleadsemotionrecognition AT mattarozzikatia firstimpressionmisleadsemotionrecognition |