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The Influence of Anxiety on the Recognition of Facial Emotion Depends on the Emotion Category and Race of the Target Faces

The recognition of emotional facial expressions is critical for our social interactions. While some prior studies have shown that a high anxiety level is associated with more sensitive recognition of emotion, there are also reports supporting that anxiety did not affect or reduce the sensitivity to...

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Autores principales: Kang, Wonjun, Kim, Gayoung, Kim, Hyehyeon, Lee, Sue-Hyun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society for Brain and Neural Science 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6526109/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31138993
http://dx.doi.org/10.5607/en.2019.28.2.261
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description The recognition of emotional facial expressions is critical for our social interactions. While some prior studies have shown that a high anxiety level is associated with more sensitive recognition of emotion, there are also reports supporting that anxiety did not affect or reduce the sensitivity to the recognition of facial emotions. To reconcile these results, here we investigated whether the effect of individual anxiety on the recognition of facial emotions is dependent on the emotion category and the race of the target faces. We found that, first, there was a significant positive correlation between the individual anxiety level and the recognition sensitivity for angry faces but not for sad or happy faces. Second, while the correlation was significant for both low- and high-intensity angry faces during the recognition of the observer's own-race faces, there was significant correlation only for low-intensity angry faces during the recognition of other-race faces. Collectively, our results suggest that the influence of anxiety on the recognition of facial emotions is flexible depending on the characteristics of the target face stimuli including emotion category and race.
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spelling pubmed-65261092019-05-28 The Influence of Anxiety on the Recognition of Facial Emotion Depends on the Emotion Category and Race of the Target Faces Kang, Wonjun Kim, Gayoung Kim, Hyehyeon Lee, Sue-Hyun Exp Neurobiol Original Article The recognition of emotional facial expressions is critical for our social interactions. While some prior studies have shown that a high anxiety level is associated with more sensitive recognition of emotion, there are also reports supporting that anxiety did not affect or reduce the sensitivity to the recognition of facial emotions. To reconcile these results, here we investigated whether the effect of individual anxiety on the recognition of facial emotions is dependent on the emotion category and the race of the target faces. We found that, first, there was a significant positive correlation between the individual anxiety level and the recognition sensitivity for angry faces but not for sad or happy faces. Second, while the correlation was significant for both low- and high-intensity angry faces during the recognition of the observer's own-race faces, there was significant correlation only for low-intensity angry faces during the recognition of other-race faces. Collectively, our results suggest that the influence of anxiety on the recognition of facial emotions is flexible depending on the characteristics of the target face stimuli including emotion category and race. The Korean Society for Brain and Neural Science 2019-04 2019-04-30 /pmc/articles/PMC6526109/ /pubmed/31138993 http://dx.doi.org/10.5607/en.2019.28.2.261 Text en Copyright © Experimental Neurobiology 2019. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short The Influence of Anxiety on the Recognition of Facial Emotion Depends on the Emotion Category and Race of the Target Faces
title_sort influence of anxiety on the recognition of facial emotion depends on the emotion category and race of the target faces
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6526109/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31138993
http://dx.doi.org/10.5607/en.2019.28.2.261
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