Training reduces error in rating the intensity of emotions.

ABSTRACT: The ability to recognize how another is feeling is a critical skill, with profound implications for social adaptation. Training programs designed to improve social functioning typically attempt to direct attention toward or away from certain facial configurations, or to improve discrimination between emotions by categorizing faces. However, emotion recognition involves processes in addition to attentional orienting or categorical labeling. The intensity with which someone is experiencing an emotion is also influential; knowing whether someone is annoyed or enraged will guide an observer's response. Here, we systematically examined a novel paradigm designed to improve ratings of facial information communicating emotion intensity in a sample of 492 participants across a series of 8 studies.

SUBMITTER: Leitzke BT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8344377 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature