Lobmaier Janek S, Tiddeman Bernard P, Perrett David I
School of Psychology, Perception Lab, University of St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland.
Emotion. 2008 Aug;8(4):573-7. doi: 10.1037/1528-3542.8.4.573.
Gaze perception is an important social skill, as it portrays information about what another person is attending to. Gaze direction has been shown to affect interpretation of emotional expression. Here the authors investigate whether the emotional facial expression has a reciprocal influence on interpretation of gaze direction. In a forced-choice yes-no task, participants were asked to judge whether three faces expressing different emotions (anger, fear, happiness, and neutral) in different viewing angles were looking at them or not. Happy faces were more likely to be judged as looking at the observer than were angry, fearful, or neutral faces. Angry faces were more often judged as looking at the observer than were fearful and neutral expressions. These findings are discussed on the background of approach and avoidance orientation of emotions and of the self-referential positivity bias.
目光感知是一项重要的社交技能，因为它传达了关于他人正在关注什么的信息。目光方向已被证明会影响对情感表达的解读。在此，作者们研究了情感面部表情是否会对目光方向的解读产生相互影响。在一项二选一的是非任务中，参与者被要求判断三张以不同视角呈现不同情绪（愤怒、恐惧、快乐和中性）的面孔是否在看着他们。快乐的面孔比愤怒、恐惧或中性的面孔更有可能被判断为在看着观察者。愤怒的面孔比恐惧和中性表情更常被判断为在看着观察者。这些发现是在情感的趋近和回避取向以及自我参照积极偏差的背景下进行讨论的。
