Hills, P.J. and Hill, D.M., 2018. Sad people are more accurate at expression identification with a smaller own-ethnicity bias than happy people. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71 (8), 1797 -1806.
Full text available as:
|
PDF
Sadpeoplearebetteratexpressionrecognition_June2017_accepted.pdf - Accepted Version Available under License Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives. 452kB | |
Copyright to original material in this document is with the original owner(s). Access to this content through BURO is granted on condition that you use it only for research, scholarly or other non-commercial purposes. If you wish to use it for any other purposes, you must contact BU via BURO@bournemouth.ac.uk. Any third party copyright material in this document remains the property of its respective owner(s). BU grants no licence for further use of that third party material. |
DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2017.1350869
Abstract
Sad individuals perform more accurately at face identity recognition (Hills, Werno, & Lewis, 2011), possibly because they scan more of the face during encoding. During expression identification tasks, sad individuals do not fixate on the eyes as much as happier individuals (Wu, Pu, Allen, & Pauli, 2012). Fixating on features other than the eyes leads to a reduced own-ethnicity bias (Hills & Lewis, 2006). This background indicates that sad individuals would not view the eyes as much as happy individuals and this would result in improved expression recognition and a reduced own-ethnicity bias. This prediction was tested using an expression identification task, with eye tracking. We demonstrate that sad-induced participants show enhanced expression recognition and a reduced own-ethnicity bias than happy-induced participants due to scanning more facial features. We conclude that mood affects eye movements and face encoding by causing a wider sampling strategy and deeper encoding of facial features diagnostic for expression identification.
Item Type: | Article |
---|---|
ISSN: | 1747-0218 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Mood induction; depression; eye tracking; face recognition; happiness; own-ethnicity bias; sadness |
Group: | Faculty of Science & Technology |
ID Code: | 29493 |
Deposited By: | Symplectic RT2 |
Deposited On: | 24 Jul 2017 10:51 |
Last Modified: | 14 Mar 2022 14:05 |
Downloads
Downloads per month over past year
Repository Staff Only - |