Minami Tetsuto, Nakajima Kae, Nakauchi Shigeki
Electronics-Inspired Interdisciplinary Research Institute, Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi, Japan.
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi, Japan.
Front Psychol. 2018 Jun 21;9:1012. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01012. eCollection 2018.
Detecting others' emotional states from their faces is an essential component of successful social interaction. However, the ability to perceive emotional expressions is reported to be modulated by a number of factors. We have previously found that facial color modulates the judgment of facial expression, while another study has shown that background color plays a modulatory role. Therefore, in this study, we directly compared the effects of face and background color on facial expression judgment within a single experiment. Fear-to-anger morphed faces were presented in face and background color conditions. Our results showed that judgments of facial expressions was influenced by both face and background color. However, facial color effects were significantly greater than background color effects, although the color saturation of faces was lower compared to background colors. These results suggest that facial color is intimately related to the judgment of facial expression, over and above the influence of simple color.
从他人面部识别其情绪状态是成功社交互动的重要组成部分。然而，据报道，感知情绪表达的能力会受到多种因素的调节。我们之前发现面部颜色会调节对面部表情的判断，而另一项研究表明背景颜色也起到调节作用。因此，在本研究中，我们在单一实验中直接比较了面部颜色和背景颜色对表情判断的影响。在面部颜色和背景颜色条件下呈现恐惧到愤怒的变形面孔。我们的结果表明，面部表情的判断受到面部颜色和背景颜色的影响。然而，尽管面部颜色饱和度低于背景颜色，但面部颜色的影响显著大于背景颜色的影响。这些结果表明，面部颜色与面部表情的判断密切相关，超出了单纯颜色的影响。
