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The effect of facial attractiveness on micro-expression recognition
Micro-expression (ME) is an extremely quick and uncontrollable facial movement that lasts for 40–200 ms and reveals thoughts and feelings that an individual attempts to cover up. Though much more difficult to detect and recognize, ME recognition is similar to macro-expression recognition in that it...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9524498/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36186390 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.959124 |
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author | Lin, Qiongsi Dong, Zizhao Zheng, Qiuqiang Wang, Su-Jing |
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description | Micro-expression (ME) is an extremely quick and uncontrollable facial movement that lasts for 40–200 ms and reveals thoughts and feelings that an individual attempts to cover up. Though much more difficult to detect and recognize, ME recognition is similar to macro-expression recognition in that it is influenced by facial features. Previous studies suggested that facial attractiveness could influence facial expression recognition processing. However, it remains unclear whether facial attractiveness could also influence ME recognition. Addressing this issue, this study tested 38 participants with two ME recognition tasks in a static condition or dynamically. Three different MEs (positive, neutral, and negative) at two attractiveness levels (attractive, unattractive). The results showed that participants recognized MEs on attractive faces much quicker than on unattractive ones, and there was a significant interaction between ME and facial attractiveness. Furthermore, attractive happy faces were recognized faster in both the static and the dynamic conditions, highlighting the happiness superiority effect. Therefore, our results provided the first evidence that facial attractiveness could influence ME recognition in a static condition or dynamically. |
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spelling | pubmed-95244982022-10-01 The effect of facial attractiveness on micro-expression recognition Lin, Qiongsi Dong, Zizhao Zheng, Qiuqiang Wang, Su-Jing Front Psychol Psychology Micro-expression (ME) is an extremely quick and uncontrollable facial movement that lasts for 40–200 ms and reveals thoughts and feelings that an individual attempts to cover up. Though much more difficult to detect and recognize, ME recognition is similar to macro-expression recognition in that it is influenced by facial features. Previous studies suggested that facial attractiveness could influence facial expression recognition processing. However, it remains unclear whether facial attractiveness could also influence ME recognition. Addressing this issue, this study tested 38 participants with two ME recognition tasks in a static condition or dynamically. Three different MEs (positive, neutral, and negative) at two attractiveness levels (attractive, unattractive). The results showed that participants recognized MEs on attractive faces much quicker than on unattractive ones, and there was a significant interaction between ME and facial attractiveness. Furthermore, attractive happy faces were recognized faster in both the static and the dynamic conditions, highlighting the happiness superiority effect. Therefore, our results provided the first evidence that facial attractiveness could influence ME recognition in a static condition or dynamically. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-09-16 /pmc/articles/PMC9524498/ /pubmed/36186390 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.959124 Text en Copyright © 2022 Lin, Dong, Zheng and Wang. https://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 Lin, Qiongsi Dong, Zizhao Zheng, Qiuqiang Wang, Su-Jing The effect of facial attractiveness on micro-expression recognition |
title | The effect of facial attractiveness on micro-expression recognition |
title_full | The effect of facial attractiveness on micro-expression recognition |
title_fullStr | The effect of facial attractiveness on micro-expression recognition |
title_full_unstemmed | The effect of facial attractiveness on micro-expression recognition |
title_short | The effect of facial attractiveness on micro-expression recognition |
title_sort | effect of facial attractiveness on micro-expression recognition |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9524498/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36186390 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.959124 |
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