Effects of posed smiling on memory for happy and sad facial expressions.

ABSTRACT: The perception and storage of facial emotional expressions constitutes an important human skill that is essential for our daily social interactions. While previous research revealed that facial feedback can influence the perception of facial emotional expressions, it is unclear whether facial feedback also plays a role in memory processes of facial emotional expressions. In the present study we investigated the impact of facial feedback on the performance in emotional visual working memory (WM). For this purpose, 37 participants underwent a classical facial feedback manipulation (FFM) (holding a pen with the teeth-inducing a smiling expression vs. holding a pen with the non-dominant hand-as a control condition) while they performed a WM task on varying intensities of happy or sad facial ex

SUBMITTER: Kuehne M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8131584 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature