Cooper Robbie M, Rowe Angela C, Penton-Voak Ian S
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol, 12a Priory Road, Bristol, UK.
J Anxiety Disord. 2008 Oct;22(7):1120-7. doi: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2007.11.010. Epub 2007 Dec 3.
Previous work has suggested that elevated levels of trait anxiety are associated with an increased ability to accurately recognize the facial expression of fear. However, to date, recognition has only been assessed after viewing periods of 10s, despite the fact that the process of emotion recognition from faces typically takes a fraction of this time. The current study required participants with either high or low levels of non-clinical trait anxiety to make speeded emotional classification judgments to a series of facial expressions drawn from seven emotional categories. Following previous work it was predicted that recognition of fearful facial expressions would be more accurate in the high-trait anxious group compared with the low-trait anxious group. However, contrary to this prediction, no anxiety-related differences in emotion perception were observed across all seven emotions. This suggests that anxiety does not influence the perception of fear as has been previously proposed.
先前的研究表明，特质焦虑水平升高与准确识别恐惧面部表情的能力增强有关。然而，迄今为止，尽管从面部识别情绪的过程通常只需短短几秒，但识别能力仅在观看10秒后进行评估。本研究要求具有高或低非临床特质焦虑水平的参与者对从七种情绪类别中提取的一系列面部表情进行快速情绪分类判断。根据先前的研究，预计高特质焦虑组对恐惧面部表情的识别将比低特质焦虑组更准确。然而，与这一预测相反，在所有七种情绪中均未观察到与焦虑相关的情绪感知差异。这表明，焦虑并不像先前提出的那样影响对恐惧的感知。
