Situational Context and Perceived Threat Modulate Approachability Judgements to Emotional Faces.

ABSTRACT: Facial expressions of emotion play a key role in guiding social judgements, including deciding whether or not to approach another person. However, no research has examined how situational context modulates approachability judgements assigned to emotional faces, or the relationship between perceived threat and approachability judgements. Fifty-two participants provided approachability judgements to angry, disgusted, fearful, happy, neutral, and sad faces across three situational contexts: no context, when giving help, and when receiving help. Participants also rated the emotional faces for level of perceived threat and labelled the facial expressions. Results indicated that context modulated approachability judgements to faces depicting negative emotions. Specifically, faces depicting distr

SUBMITTER: Willis ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4488138 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature