Inferring Emotion from Facial Expressions in Social Contexts : A Role of Self-Construal?
<em>The study attempted to replicate the findings of Masuda and colleagues (2008), testing a modified hypothesis: when judging people’s emotions from facial expressions, interdependence-primed participants, in contrast to independence-primed participants, incorporate information from the socia...
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| author | Ana Maria Draghici Raisa Petca Hauke Hillebrandt |
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| description | <em>The study attempted to replicate the findings of Masuda and colleagues (2008), testing a modified hypothesis: when judging people’s emotions from facial expressions, interdependence-primed participants, in contrast to independence-primed participants, incorporate information from the social context, i.e. facial expressions of surrounding people. This was done in order to check if self construal could be the main variable influencing the cultural differences in emotion perception documented by Masuda and colleagues. Participants viewed cartoon images depicting a happy, sad, or neutral character in its facial expression, surrounded by other characters expressing graded congruent or incongruent facial expressions. The hypothesis was only (partially) confirmed for the emotional judgments of a neutral facial expression target. However, a closer look at the individual means indicated both assimilation and contrast effects, without a systematic manner in which the background characters' facial expressions would have been incorporated in the participants' judgments, for either of the priming groups. The results are discussed in terms of priming and priming success, and possible moderators other than self-construal for the effect found by Masuda and colleagues.</em> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a65b069cf60a45d195906d41e1ebd9bb2022-12-21T18:57:19ZengEuropean Federation of Psychology Students' AssociationsJournal of European Psychology Students2222-69312010-01-011110.5334/jeps.ac8Inferring Emotion from Facial Expressions in Social Contexts : A Role of Self-Construal?Ana Maria DraghiciRaisa PetcaHauke Hillebrandt<em>The study attempted to replicate the findings of Masuda and colleagues (2008), testing a modified hypothesis: when judging people’s emotions from facial expressions, interdependence-primed participants, in contrast to independence-primed participants, incorporate information from the social context, i.e. facial expressions of surrounding people. This was done in order to check if self construal could be the main variable influencing the cultural differences in emotion perception documented by Masuda and colleagues. Participants viewed cartoon images depicting a happy, sad, or neutral character in its facial expression, surrounded by other characters expressing graded congruent or incongruent facial expressions. The hypothesis was only (partially) confirmed for the emotional judgments of a neutral facial expression target. However, a closer look at the individual means indicated both assimilation and contrast effects, without a systematic manner in which the background characters' facial expressions would have been incorporated in the participants' judgments, for either of the priming groups. The results are discussed in terms of priming and priming success, and possible moderators other than self-construal for the effect found by Masuda and colleagues.</em>https://jeps.efpsa.org/articles/1 |
| spellingShingle | Ana Maria Draghici Raisa Petca Hauke Hillebrandt Inferring Emotion from Facial Expressions in Social Contexts : A Role of Self-Construal? Journal of European Psychology Students |
| title | Inferring Emotion from Facial Expressions in Social Contexts : A Role of Self-Construal? |
| title_full | Inferring Emotion from Facial Expressions in Social Contexts : A Role of Self-Construal? |
| title_fullStr | Inferring Emotion from Facial Expressions in Social Contexts : A Role of Self-Construal? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Inferring Emotion from Facial Expressions in Social Contexts : A Role of Self-Construal? |
| title_short | Inferring Emotion from Facial Expressions in Social Contexts : A Role of Self-Construal? |
| title_sort | inferring emotion from facial expressions in social contexts a role of self construal |
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