EmBody/EmFace as a new open tool to assess emotion recognition from body and face expressions
Abstract Nonverbal expressions contribute substantially to social interaction by providing information on another person’s intentions and feelings. While emotion recognition from dynamic facial expressions has been widely studied, dynamic body expressions and the interplay of emotion recognition fro...
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| author | Lea L. Lott Franny B. Spengler Tobias Stächele Bastian Schiller Markus Heinrichs |
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| description | Abstract Nonverbal expressions contribute substantially to social interaction by providing information on another person’s intentions and feelings. While emotion recognition from dynamic facial expressions has been widely studied, dynamic body expressions and the interplay of emotion recognition from facial and body expressions have attracted less attention, as suitable diagnostic tools are scarce. Here, we provide validation data on a new open source paradigm enabling the assessment of emotion recognition from both 3D-animated emotional body expressions (Task 1: EmBody) and emotionally corresponding dynamic faces (Task 2: EmFace). Both tasks use visually standardized items depicting three emotional states (angry, happy, neutral), and can be used alone or together. We here demonstrate successful psychometric matching of the EmBody/EmFace items in a sample of 217 healthy subjects with excellent retest reliability and validity (correlations with the Reading-the-Mind-in-the-Eyes-Test and Autism-Spectrum Quotient, no correlations with intelligence, and given factorial validity). Taken together, the EmBody/EmFace is a novel, effective (< 5 min per task), highly standardized and reliably precise tool to sensitively assess and compare emotion recognition from body and face stimuli. The EmBody/EmFace has a wide range of potential applications in affective, cognitive and social neuroscience, and in clinical research studying face- and body-specific emotion recognition in patient populations suffering from social interaction deficits such as autism, schizophrenia, or social anxiety. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-dc4fd520b06c4d948572c615ee02f79a2022-12-22T01:37:14ZengNature PortfolioScientific Reports2045-23222022-08-0112111310.1038/s41598-022-17866-wEmBody/EmFace as a new open tool to assess emotion recognition from body and face expressionsLea L. Lott0Franny B. Spengler1Tobias Stächele2Bastian Schiller3Markus Heinrichs4Laboratory for Biological Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Department of Psychology, University of FreiburgLaboratory for Biological Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Department of Psychology, University of FreiburgLaboratory for Biological Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Department of Psychology, University of FreiburgLaboratory for Biological Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Department of Psychology, University of FreiburgLaboratory for Biological Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Department of Psychology, University of FreiburgAbstract Nonverbal expressions contribute substantially to social interaction by providing information on another person’s intentions and feelings. While emotion recognition from dynamic facial expressions has been widely studied, dynamic body expressions and the interplay of emotion recognition from facial and body expressions have attracted less attention, as suitable diagnostic tools are scarce. Here, we provide validation data on a new open source paradigm enabling the assessment of emotion recognition from both 3D-animated emotional body expressions (Task 1: EmBody) and emotionally corresponding dynamic faces (Task 2: EmFace). Both tasks use visually standardized items depicting three emotional states (angry, happy, neutral), and can be used alone or together. We here demonstrate successful psychometric matching of the EmBody/EmFace items in a sample of 217 healthy subjects with excellent retest reliability and validity (correlations with the Reading-the-Mind-in-the-Eyes-Test and Autism-Spectrum Quotient, no correlations with intelligence, and given factorial validity). Taken together, the EmBody/EmFace is a novel, effective (< 5 min per task), highly standardized and reliably precise tool to sensitively assess and compare emotion recognition from body and face stimuli. The EmBody/EmFace has a wide range of potential applications in affective, cognitive and social neuroscience, and in clinical research studying face- and body-specific emotion recognition in patient populations suffering from social interaction deficits such as autism, schizophrenia, or social anxiety.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-17866-w |
| spellingShingle | Lea L. Lott Franny B. Spengler Tobias Stächele Bastian Schiller Markus Heinrichs EmBody/EmFace as a new open tool to assess emotion recognition from body and face expressions Scientific Reports |
| title | EmBody/EmFace as a new open tool to assess emotion recognition from body and face expressions |
| title_full | EmBody/EmFace as a new open tool to assess emotion recognition from body and face expressions |
| title_fullStr | EmBody/EmFace as a new open tool to assess emotion recognition from body and face expressions |
| title_full_unstemmed | EmBody/EmFace as a new open tool to assess emotion recognition from body and face expressions |
| title_short | EmBody/EmFace as a new open tool to assess emotion recognition from body and face expressions |
| title_sort | embody emface as a new open tool to assess emotion recognition from body and face expressions |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-17866-w |
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