Power Eliminates the Influence of Body Posture on Facial Emotion Recognition

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• 作者：Ciro Civile ; Sukhvinder S. Obhi
• 关键词：Social power ; Power priming ; Face ; body congruence effect ; Facial emotion recognition
• 刊名：Journal of Nonverbal Behavior
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：40
• 期：4
• 页码：283-299
• 全文大小：1,047 KB
• 刊物类别：Behavioral Science
• 刊物主题：Psychology
  Personality and Social Psychology
  Sociology
  Social Sciences
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-3653
• 卷排序：40

文摘

We investigated how power priming affects facial emotion recognition in the context of body postures conveying the same or different emotion. Facial emotions are usually recognized better when the face is presented with a congruent body posture, and recognized worse when the body posture is incongruent. In our study, we primed participants to either low, high, or neutral power prior to their performance in a facial-emotion categorization task in which faces were presented together with a congruent or incongruent body posture. Facial emotion recognition in high-power participants was not affected by body posture. In contrast, low-power and neutral-power participants were significantly affected by the congruence of facial and body emotions. Specifically, these participants displayed better facial emotion recognition when the body posture was congruent, and worse performance when the body posture was incongruent. In a following task, we trained the same participants to categorize two sets of novel checkerboard stimuli and then engaged them in a recognition test involving compounds of these stimuli. High, low, and neutral-power participants all showed a strong congruence effect for compound checkerboard stimuli. We discuss our results with reference to the literature on power and social perception.