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Emotion Labeling Effects on the Categorical Perception of a Blended Emotion Facial Expression

The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology / The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, (P)1226-9654; (E)2733-466X
2020, v.32 no.2, pp.235-248
https://doi.org/10.22172/cogbio.2020.32.2.009



& (2020). Emotion Labeling Effects on the Categorical Perception of a Blended Emotion Facial Expression. The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, 32(2), 235-248, https://doi.org/10.22172/cogbio.2020.32.2.009

Abstract

From the view of the basic emotion theory, categorical perception (CP) of facial expressions occurs as a result of the biologically endowed ability for recognition of emotions. On the contrary, the theory of constructed emotion argues that people perceive facial expressions categorically because they have labels like “anger,” “sadness,” and “fear,” which provide conceptual knowledge of emotions to structural information of facial movements. However, it is difficult to determine whether CP of facial expressions is due to the innate ability for facial expression or due to emotion labels, because adults are already familiar with basic facial expressions and may label them easily. To answer this question, we created a non-stereotypical blended facial expression, which is relatively ambiguous to categorize as a specific emotion, by blending of two basic emotion expressions (‘fear’, ‘disgust’). In the CP experiment using X-AB discrimination task, the influence of the label was examined by providing an emotion label (“horrible”) to the blended expression or not. As a result of the experiment, CP was only observed in the groups who labeled the blended expression. The current result showing that CP of a blended facial expression is facilitated by an emotion label supports the claim of the theory of constructed emotion.

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구성된정서이론, 범주적지각, 정서명칭효과, 얼굴정서지각, the theory of constructed emotion, categorical perception, emotion label effect, facial emotion perception

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