Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA.
Emotion. 2012 Apr;12(2):314-25. doi: 10.1037/a0026007. Epub 2012 Feb 6.
People believe they see emotion written on the faces of other people. In an instant, simple facial actions are transformed into information about another's emotional state. The present research examined whether a perceiver unknowingly contributes to emotion perception with emotion word knowledge. We present 2 studies that together support a role for emotion concepts in the formation of visual percepts of emotion. As predicted, we found that perceptual priming of emotional faces (e.g., a scowling face) was disrupted when the accessibility of a relevant emotion word (e.g., anger) was temporarily reduced, demonstrating that the exact same face was encoded differently when a word was accessible versus when it was not. The implications of these findings for a linguistically relative view of emotion perception are discussed.
人们相信他们可以从他人的面部表情中看出情绪。在一瞬间，简单的面部动作就转化为了有关他人情绪状态的信息。本研究检验了知觉者是否在不知不觉中通过情绪词汇知识对情绪知觉做出了贡献。我们呈现了两项研究，它们共同支持情绪概念在情绪视觉知觉形成中的作用。正如预测的那样，我们发现，当相关情绪词汇（例如“anger”）的可及性暂时降低时，情绪面孔的知觉启动（例如皱眉的脸）会受到干扰，这表明当一个词可及与不可及时，同一副面孔的编码方式是不同的。讨论了这些发现对情绪知觉的语言相对观点的影响。
