Would I lie to you? “leakage” in deceptive facial expressions relates to psychopathy and emotional intelligence

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• 作者：Stephen Porter ; ^a ; ^{Stephen.Porter@ubc.ca"" rel=""nofollow} ; Leanne ten Brinke^a ; Alysha Baker^a ; Brendan Wallace^a
• 关键词：Emotion ; Facial expression ; Deception ; Psychopathy ; Emotional intelligence
• 刊名：Personality and Individual Differences
• 出版年：2011
• 出版时间：July 2011
• 年：2011
• 卷：51
• 期：2
• 页码：133-137
• 全文大小：185 K

文摘

This was the first investigation of individual differences in adopting deceptive universal emotional expressions. We hypothesized that psychopathic traits would lead to a heightened ability to suppress emotional expressions and exhibit less “leakage” of inconsistent emotions during deceptive displays. Further, we predicted that emotional intelligence (EI) would lead to a heightened ability to simulate emotional expressions. Participants (N = 100) viewed emotionally arousing (happy, sad, fearful, disgusting) images, responding to each with a genuine or deceptive expression. Each video frame (30/sec) was coded for emotion (in)consistent with the intended expression (365,550 frames coded for 2437 expressions). As predicted, psychopathic traits – specifically, high levels of interpersonal manipulation – were related to shorter durations of unintended emotional “leakage” during deceptive expressions. In contrast, the erratic lifestyle element of psychopathy predicted greater emotional inconsistency during deceptive displays. Individuals higher in EI – specifically, the ability to perceive and express emotion – feigned emotions more convincingly than others but were not more immune to emotional leakage.