School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Kings College, Old Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom.
Emotion. 2012 Feb;12(1):39-43. doi: 10.1037/a0024775. Epub 2011 Aug 15.
There is evidence that some emotional expressions are characterized by diagnostic cues from individual face features. For example, an upturned mouth is indicative of happiness, whereas a furrowed brow is associated with anger. The current investigation explored whether motivating people to perceive stimuli in a local (i.e., feature-based) rather than global (i.e., holistic) processing orientation was advantageous for recognizing emotional facial expressions. Participants classified emotional faces while primed with local and global processing orientations, via a Navon letter task. Contrary to previous findings for identity recognition, the current findings are indicative of a modest advantage for face emotion recognition under conditions of local processing orientation. When primed with a local processing orientation, participants performed both significantly faster and more accurately on an emotion recognition task than when they were primed with a global processing orientation. The impacts of this finding for theories of emotion recognition and face processing are considered.
有证据表明，一些情绪表达的特点是具有个体面部特征的诊断线索。例如，上翘的嘴表示快乐，而皱起的眉头则与愤怒有关。目前的研究探讨了是否促使人们以局部（即基于特征的）而不是全局（即整体的）处理方向感知刺激有利于识别情绪面部表情。参与者在纳冯字母任务中通过局部和全局处理方向的启动来分类情绪面孔。与之前对身份识别的发现相反，目前的发现表明，在局部处理方向的条件下，面部表情识别具有适度的优势。当被启动为局部处理方向时，参与者在情绪识别任务中的表现无论是速度还是准确性都明显优于被启动为全局处理方向时。考虑了这一发现对情绪识别和面部处理理论的影响。
