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A study of emotional facial expression recognition based on empathy ability: Using eye-tracker

Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology / Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology, (P)1229-0653;
2013, v.27 no.1, pp.49-65
https://doi.org/10.21193/kjspp.2013.27.1.004



Abstract

The goal of this study was to examine the extent to which individuals recognize the facial expressions of increasing intensity and determine which areas of the face stimulates the recognition of emotion by empathy ability using an eye-tracker. The participants who were high empathy group (N=18) and low empathy group (N=18) viewed sequences of pictures of neutral faces (0% expression) that changed to happy, fearful, or angry faces of full-intensity (100% expression). Participants were asked to answer the facial expression as soon as they were able to recognize what it was and were measured eye movements for determining which areas of the face provoke the recognition of emotion. Results showed that the high empathy group recognized happy face more accurately and displayed significantly increased fixations and dwell time on the mouth area in happy face than the low empathy group. The findings of these results suggest that individual with higher empathy ability recognize positive facial expression more accurately and use facial features more efficiently when recognize positive emotional face.

keywords
empathy, facial expression, recognition, morphing, eye-tracker, 공감, 얼굴표정, 정서인식, 몰핑 자극, 안구운동 추적장비

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