Department of Psychology, Assumption College, Worcester, MA 01609, USA.
Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2011 Jan;37(1):28-39. doi: 10.1177/0146167210388194. Epub 2010 Nov 17.
It is often assumed that intimacy and familiarity will lead to better and more effective emotional communication between two individuals. However, research has failed to unequivocally support this claim. The present study proposes that close dyads exhibit superiority in the decoding of subdued facial cues than in the decoding of highly intense expressions. A total of 43 close friend dyads and 49 casual acquaintance dyads (all women) were compared on their recognition of their partner's and a stranger's subdued facial expressions. Dyadic analyses indicate that close friends were more accurate and also improved more rapidly than casual acquaintances in decoding one other's subdued expressions of sadness, anger, and happiness, especially the two negative emotions, but not in detecting the stranger's subdued expressions. The results strongly suggest that intimacy fosters more accurate decoding of subdued facial expressions.
人们通常认为亲密和熟悉会导致两个人之间更好、更有效的情感沟通。然而，研究未能明确支持这一说法。本研究提出，亲密的二人组在解码柔和的面部线索方面比在解码高度强烈的表情方面表现出优越性。共有 43 对亲密朋友对和 49 对偶然熟人对（均为女性）在识别他们的伴侣和陌生人的柔和面部表情方面进行了比较。二元分析表明，亲密朋友在解码另一个人的悲伤、愤怒和幸福的柔和表情方面比偶然熟人更准确，而且提高得更快，尤其是在解码两个负面情绪时，但在检测陌生人的柔和表情方面则不然。结果强烈表明，亲密关系促进了对柔和面部表情的更准确解码。
