Contextual interference processing during fast categorisations of facial expressions

Frühholz, Sascha; Trautmann-Lengsfeld, Sina Alexa; Herrmann, Manfred

doi:10.1080/02699931.2010.516905

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“…Within this framework, color can be regarded as one such source of contextual information, and thus as an implicit affective cue ( Friedman and Förster, 2010 ). Researchers have therefore recently examined how color is subjectively associated with emotional faces ( Palmer et al, 2013 ) or used as an implicit source of contextual information for faces ( Frühholz et al, 2011 ; Young et al, 2013 ; Gil and Le Bigot, 2014 ). Regarding red, Palmer et al (2013) , Experiment 2 found that when participants had to choose the color (out of possible 37) that was the most/least consistent with an emotional face, angry faces were particularly closely associated with reddish colors.…”

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Grounding context in face processing: color, emotion, and gender

Gil

Bigot

2015

Front. Psychol.

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In recent years, researchers have become interested in the way that the affective quality of contextual information transfers to a perceived target. We therefore examined the effect of a red (vs. green, mixed red/green, and achromatic) background – known to be valenced – on the processing of stimuli that play a key role in human interactions, namely facial expressions. We also examined whether the valenced-color effect can be modulated by gender, which is also known to be valenced. Female and male adult participants performed a categorization task of facial expressions of emotion in which the faces of female and male posers expressing two ambiguous emotions (i.e., neutral and surprise) were presented against the four different colored backgrounds. Additionally, this task was completed by collecting subjective ratings for each colored background in the form of five semantic differential scales corresponding to both discrete and dimensional perspectives of emotion. We found that the red background resulted in more negative face perception than the green background, whether the poser was female or male. However, whereas this valenced-color effect was the only effect for female posers, for male posers, the effect was modulated by both the nature of the ambiguous emotion and the decoder’s gender. Overall, our findings offer evidence that color and gender have a common valence-based dimension.

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Grounding context in face processing: color, emotion, and gender

Gil

Bigot

2015

Front. Psychol.

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“…By contrast, they failed to show that green facilitates the categorization of happy ones. Frühholz and colleagues (2011) examined the impact of color on the recognition of facial expressions of fear, happiness and neutrality, after participants had undergone a learning phase designed to artificially induce a specific association between color and emotion (Experiments 1 and 2) [49] . Importantly for our purpose, the authors stressed that the face–color associations they created were not random, but based on shared emotional properties (i.e., arousal and valence).…”

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Seeing Life through Positive-Tinted Glasses: Color–Meaning Associations

Gil

Bigot

2014

PLoS ONE

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There is a growing body of literature to show that color can convey information, owing to its emotionally meaningful associations. Most research so far has focused on negative hue–meaning associations (e.g., red) with the exception of the positive aspects associated with green. We therefore set out to investigate the positive associations of two colors (i.e., green and pink), using an emotional facial expression recognition task in which colors provided the emotional contextual information for the face processing. In two experiments, green and pink backgrounds enhanced happy face recognition and impaired sad face recognition, compared with a control color (gray). Our findings therefore suggest that because green and pink both convey positive information, they facilitate the processing of emotionally congruent facial expressions (i.e., faces expressing happiness) and interfere with that of incongruent facial expressions (i.e., faces expressing sadness). Data also revealed a positive association for white. Results are discussed within the theoretical framework of emotional cue processing and color meaning.

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“…Studies convincingly show that the task specific context can influence the associative meaning of a concept in a task (e.g., Blair 2002;Elliot & Maier, 2014;Frühholz, Trautmann-Lengsfeld, & Herrmann, 2011;Lakens, Fockenberg, Lemmens, Ham, & Midden, 2013). For example, studies suggest that in an achievement context, red is associated with failure and negativity (e.g., Moller, Elliot, & Maier, 2009), while in a romantic context, red is associated with attraction and excitement (e.g., Elliot & Pazda, 2012).…”

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Predicting Context-dependent Cross-modal Associations with Dimension-specific Polarity Attributions. Part 2: Red and Valence

Schietecat

Lakens

IJsselsteijn

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Collabra: Psychology

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Although context effects have repeatedly been demonstrated, it remains difficult to predict how context features influence the associative meaning of concepts. In a recent series of Experiments (see Part 1, Schietecat, Lakens, IJsselsteijn, & de Kort, 2018), we proposed and tested the dimension-specificity hypothesis for understanding and predicting context-dependent cross-modal associations between saturation, brightness, and aggression. In the current manuscript, Part 2, we aim to further test the dimension-specificity hypothesis by predicting the context-dependency of the meaning of the color red observed in the literature. The results of a series of five experiments revealed that the associations between red and valence could be predicted based on the activated dimensions of meaning (i.e., the evaluation or activity dimension) through the opposing concepts in the task. In the context of green, red was associated with negativity, whereas in context of blue, red was mostly associated with activity. Therefore, red was related to both aggression (a negative concept) and enthusiasm (a positive concept), depending on the context.

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Contextual interference processing during fast categorisations of facial expressions

Cited by 12 publications

References 75 publications

Grounding context in face processing: color, emotion, and gender

Grounding context in face processing: color, emotion, and gender

Seeing Life through Positive-Tinted Glasses: Color–Meaning Associations

Predicting Context-dependent Cross-modal Associations with Dimension-specific Polarity Attributions. Part 2: Red and Valence

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