The Unique and Interactive Effects of Faces, Postures, and Scenes on Emotion Categorization.

ABSTRACT: There is ongoing debate as to whether emotion perception is determined by facial expressions or context (i.e., non-facial cues). The present investigation examined the independent and interactive effects of six emotions (anger, disgust, fear, joy, sadness, neutral) conveyed by combinations of facial expressions, bodily postures, and background scenes in a fully crossed design. Participants viewed each face-posture-scene (FPS) combination for 5 s and were then asked to categorize the emotion depicted in the image. Four key findings emerged from the analyses: (1) For fully incongruent FPS combinations, participants categorized images using the face in 61% of instances and the posture and scene in 18% and 11% of instances, respectively; (2) postures (with neutral scenes) and scenes (with neut

SUBMITTER: Reschke PJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9382938 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature