Emotion recognition bias depends on stimulus morphing strategy.

ABSTRACT: Emotion recognition is vital for social interactions, and atypical (or biased) emotion recognition has been linked to mental health disorders including depression and anxiety. However, biases in emotion recognition vary across studies, and it is unclear whether this reflects genuine group differences in psychological processes underlying emotion recognition or differences in methodologies. One common method to measure biases in emotion recognition involves morphing a face between two emotional expressions in different ratios and asking participants to categorise the faces as belonging to one of the two emotion categories ('direct-morphing' method). However, this method creates morphed faces that are not ecologically valid. Alternatively, faces may be morphed through a neutral expression ('

SUBMITTER: Vikhanova A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9255837 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature