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The role of trait anxiety and emotional information in the perception of biological motion

The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology / The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, (P)1226-9654; (E)2733-466X
2018, v.30 no.1, pp.15-33
https://doi.org/10.22172/cogbio.2018.30.1.002


& (2018). The role of trait anxiety and emotional information in the perception of biological motion. The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, 30(1), 15-33, https://doi.org/10.22172/cogbio.2018.30.1.002

Abstract

Anxious individuals are known to process socially-relevant stimuli in an aberrant way, in both higher cognitive level and low level perceptual processing. While the majority of previous studies have investigated the influence of anxiety on processing of nonverbal social cues using face stimuli, we employed point-light biological motion (BM) as main stimulus, noting that processing of bodily movements is also important. Through two different tasks, detection from noise and emotion recognition, the current study examined whether the level of trait anxiety has an influence on BM detection, whether emotional valence (anger, happiness, and neutral) of the stimuli could modulate the anxiety effect, and whether accuracy pattern for explicit emotion recognition from BM is consistent with the influence of implicit emotion processing in the detection task. The results showed that the detection performances of high-anxiety group were poorer than those of low-anxiety group when the stimuli were emotionally neutral. In contrast, the performances of the two groups were comparable for emotional stimuli in both detection and emotion recognition tasks. The results imply that high level of trait anxiety is associated with decreased ability to process BM, which can be compensated if the stimuli convey emotional information.

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Anxiety, Biological motion, Perception, Emotion, 불안, 생물형운동, 지각, 정서

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