Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management-Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, India.
Cognitive Science Lab, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India.
Int J Psychol. 2021 Jun;56(3):378-386. doi: 10.1002/ijop.12720. Epub 2020 Oct 5.
Due to mood-congruency effects, we expect the emotion perceived on a face to be biased towards one's own mood. But the findings in the scant literature on such mood effects in normal healthy populations have not consistently and adequately supported this expectation. Employing effective mood manipulation techniques that ensured that the intended mood was sustained throughout the perception task, we explored mood-congruent intensity and recognition accuracy biases in emotion perception. Using realistic face stimuli with expressive cues of happiness and sadness, we demonstrated that happy, neutral and ambiguous expressions were perceived more positively in the positive than in the negative mood. The mood-congruency effect decreased with the degree of perceived negativity in the expression. Also, males were more affected by the mood-congruency effect in intensity perception than females. We suggest that the greater salience and better processing of negative stimuli and the superior cognitive ability of females in emotion perception are responsible for these observations. We found no evidence for mood-congruency effect in the recognition accuracy of emotions and suggest with supporting evidence that past reports of this effect may be attributed to response bias driven by mood.
由于情绪一致性效应，我们期望在脸上感知到的情绪偏向于自己的情绪。但是，在关于正常健康人群中这种情绪效应的少量文献中，并没有一致且充分地支持这种预期。我们采用有效的情绪调节技术，确保在感知任务过程中维持预期的情绪，从而探索情绪感知中的一致性强度和识别准确性偏差。使用具有快乐和悲伤表达暗示的逼真面部刺激，我们证明了在积极情绪中，快乐、中性和模糊的表情比在消极情绪中被感知得更积极。情绪一致性效应随着表情中感知到的负面程度的增加而降低。此外，男性在强度感知方面比女性更容易受到情绪一致性效应的影响。我们认为，女性对负面刺激的更高凸显度和更好的处理能力以及在情绪感知方面的优越认知能力解释了这些观察结果。我们在情绪识别的准确性方面没有发现情绪一致性效应的证据，并提出了支持性证据，表明过去关于这种效应的报告可能归因于情绪驱动的反应偏差。
