The inside out model of emotion recognition: how the shape of one's internal emotional landscape influences the recognition of others' emotions.

ABSTRACT: Some people are exceptional at reading emotional expressions, while others struggle. Here we ask whether the way we experience emotion "on the inside" influences the way we expect emotions to be expressed in the "outside world" and subsequently our ability to read others' emotional expressions. Across multiple experiments, incorporating discovery and replication samples, we develop EmoMap (N = 20; N = 271) and ExpressionMap (N = 98; replication N = 193) to map adults' experiences of emotions and visual representations of others' emotions. Some individuals have modular maps, wherein emotional experiences and visual representations are consistent and distinct-anger looks and feels different from happiness, which looks and feels different from sadness. In contrast, others have experiences and

SUBMITTER: Keating CT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10700588 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature