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Language and face in interactions: emotion perception, social meanings, and communicative intentions.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Human emotions can be complex to interpret as they have multiple sources and are often times ambiguous, for example, when the signals sent by different channels of communication are inconsistent. Our study investigates the interaction of linguistic and facial expressions of emotions.

Methods

In two experiments, participants read short scenarios in German containing a direct utterance with positive or negative emotive markers, in combination with different facial expressions as still images of the speaker (i.e., the protagonist in the story). They answered questions about their perception regarding the intensity of the emotions (e.g., happiness, sadness), the properties of the expresser (e.g., honesty, warmth, likeability) and their relation to the addressee (e.g., closeness), as well as the expresser intention (e.g., irony, joke).

Results

The findings suggest that facial expressions have a more dominant role in the emotion perception in comparison to emotive markers. Furthermore, consistent and inconsistent combinations of emotive markers and facial expressions convey distinct social meanings and communicative intentions.

Conclusion

This research points to the importance to consider emotive markers in the emotional context that they occur in.

SUBMITTER: Liu M

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10185906 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Language and face in interactions: emotion perception, social meanings, and communicative intentions.

Liu Mingya M Schwab Juliane J Hess Ursula U

Frontiers in psychology 20230502

<h4>Introduction</h4>Human emotions can be complex to interpret as they have multiple sources and are often times ambiguous, for example, when the signals sent by different channels of communication are inconsistent. Our study investigates the interaction of linguistic and facial expressions of emotions.<h4>Methods</h4>In two experiments, participants read short scenarios in German containing a direct utterance with positive or negative emotive markers, in combination with different facial expre ...[more]

PMID: 37205062

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Language and face in interactions: emotion perception, social meanings, and communicative intentions.

Introduction

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Language and face in interactions: emotion perception, social meanings, and communicative intentions.

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