The background assimilation effect: Facial emotional perception is affected by surrounding stimuli.

ABSTRACT: The perception of facial emotion is not only determined by the physical features of the face itself but also be influenced by the emotional information of the background or surrounding information. However, the details of such effect are not fully understood. Here, the authors tested the perceived emotion of a target face surrounded by stimuli with different levels of emotional valence. In Experiment 1, four types of objects were divided into three groups (negative, unpleasant flowers and unpleasant animals; mildly negative (neutral), houses; positive, pleasant flowers). In Experiment 2, three groups of surrounding faces with different social-emotional valence (negative, neutral, and positive) were formed with the memory of affective personal knowledge. The data from two experiments showed

SUBMITTER: Wu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10467198 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul-Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature