Salgado-Montejo Alejandro, Salgado Carlos José, Alvarado Jorge, Spence Charles
a Crossmodal Research Laboratory, Department of Experimental Psychology , University of Oxford , Oxford , UK.
b Escuela Internacional de Ciencias Económicas y Administrativas, Universidad de La Sabana , Chía , Colombia.
Cogn Emot. 2017 Apr;31(3):511-525. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2015.1133401. Epub 2016 Jan 27.
We investigated whether lines and shapes that present face-like features would be associated with emotions. In Experiment 1, participants associated concave, convex, or straight lines with the words happy or sad. Participants found it easiest to associate the concave line with happy and the convex line with sad. In Experiment 2, participants rated (valence, pleasantness, liking, and tension) and categorised (valence and emotion words) two convex and concave lines that were paired with six distinct pairs of eyes. The presence of eyes affected participants' valence ratings and response latencies; more congruent eye-mouth matches produced more consistent ratings and faster reaction times. In Experiment 3, we examined whether dots that resembled eyes would be associated with emotional words. Participants found it easier to match certain sets of dots with specific emotions. These results suggest that facial gestures that are associated with specific emotions can be captured using relatively simple shapes and lines.
我们研究了呈现出类似面部特征的线条和形状是否会与情绪相关联。在实验1中，参与者将凹线、凸线或直线与“快乐”或“悲伤”的词语联系起来。参与者发现将凹线与快乐联系起来最容易，而将凸线与悲伤联系起来最容易。在实验2中，参与者对两条分别与六组不同眼睛配对的凸线和凹线进行了评分（效价、愉悦度、喜爱度和紧张感）并进行了分类（效价和情绪词汇）。眼睛的存在影响了参与者的效价评分和反应潜伏期；眼睛与嘴巴的匹配度越高，评分越一致，反应时间越快。在实验3中，我们研究了类似眼睛的点是否会与情绪词汇相关联。参与者发现将某些点集与特定情绪进行匹配更容易。这些结果表明，使用相对简单的形状和线条就可以捕捉到与特定情绪相关的面部姿态。
