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Contextual effect of facial expression in emotion recognition: A comparative study of the number, intensity, and present time of the contextual cues

The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology / The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, (P)1226-9654; (E)2733-466X
2017, v.29 no.3, pp.237-259
https://doi.org/10.22172/cogbio.2017.29.3.003



Abstract

Understanding others’ facial expression is a key component of emotion recognition and social functioning. Contextual cues are known to have important influence on the emotion perception via faces. The aim is to examine 1&#41 the role of others’ faces as contextual cues in emotion perception, and 2&#41 the influence of different variables&#40number, intensity, and present time&#41 of face on the contextual effect. Three experiments were conducted to explore each variables. Participants were asked to judge the intensity of the facial on the target face. The results show that the number of the contextual cues have significant effect on judging the intensity of the target face, whereas the intensity had relatively small influence. The present time of the stimuli did not show significant effect on judgement on the intensity of the target emotion. The implication and the limitation of the study is further discussed.

keywords
정서인식, 맥락효과, 얼굴표정인식, 얼굴표정, 맥락정보, emotion recognition, contextual effect, facial expression recognition, facial expression, contextual cue

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