Lecker Maya, Aviezer Hillel
Department of Psychology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mt. Scopus, 9190501 Jerusalem, Israel.
Affect Sci. 2021 May 12;2(2):163-170. doi: 10.1007/s42761-021-00043-z. eCollection 2021 Jun.
Semantic emotional labels can influence the recognition of isolated facial expressions. However, it is unknown if labels also influence the susceptibility of facial expressions to context. To examine this, participants categorized expressive faces presented with emotionally congruent or incongruent bodies, serving as context. Face-body composites were presented together, aligned in their natural form, or spatially misaligned with the head shifted horizontally beside the body-a condition known to reduce the contextual impact of the body on the face. Critically, participants responded either by choosing emotion labels or by perceptually matching the target expression with expression probes. The results show a label dominance effect: Face-body congruency effects were larger with semantic labels than with perceptual expression matching, indicating that facial expressions are more prone to contextual influence when categorized with emotion labels, an effect only found when faces and bodies were aligned. These findings suggest that the role of conceptual language in face-body context effects may be larger than previously assumed.
语义情感标签会影响对面部表情孤立状态的识别。然而，尚不清楚这些标签是否也会影响面部表情在情境中的易感性。为了对此进行研究，参与者对面部表情与情感一致或不一致的身体（作为情境）同时呈现的情况进行分类。面部与身体的合成图像以自然形式对齐呈现，或者在空间上不对齐，头部水平移至身体旁边——这种情况已知会降低身体对脸部的情境影响。关键的是，参与者通过选择情感标签或通过将目标表情与表情探针进行感知匹配来做出反应。结果显示出标签主导效应：与感知表情匹配相比，语义标签下的面部与身体一致性效应更大，这表明当用情感标签进行分类时，面部表情更容易受到情境影响，这种效应仅在面部和身体对齐时才会出现。这些发现表明，概念性语言在面部与身体情境效应中的作用可能比之前设想的更大。
