Emotion Science in the Twenty-First Century. Time, Sex, and Behavior in Emotion Science: Over and Above

Pavlova, Marina

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01211

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“…Deficits are also reported in individuals who were born preterm and suffer congenital brain lesions ), Alzheimer's (Henry et al, 2012;Insch et al, 2015) and Parkinson's diseases (Cao et al, 2015;Jaywant et al, 2016a,b;Kloeters et al, 2017), epilepsy (Bala et al, 2018), and eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia (Zucker et al, 2013;Lang et al, 2015;Dapelo et al, 2017). Most of these disorders that are characterized by aberrant social cognition display a skewed sex ratio: females and males are affected differently in terms of clinical picture, prevalence, and severity (Pavlova, 2012(Pavlova, , 2017a.…”

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Untangling the Ties Between Social Cognition and Body Motion: Gender Impact

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We proved the viability of the general hypothesis that biological motion (BM) processing serves as a hallmark of social cognition. We assumed that BM processing and inferring emotions through BM (body language reading) are firmly linked and examined whether this tie is gender-specific. Healthy females and males completed two tasks with the same set of point-light BM displays portraying angry and neutral locomotion of female and male actors. For one task, perceivers had to indicate actor gender, while for the other, they had to infer the emotional content of locomotion. Thus, with identical visual input, we directed task demands either to BM processing or inferring of emotion. This design allows straight comparison between sensitivity to BM and recognition of emotions conveyed by the same BM. In addition, perceivers were administered a set of photographs from the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET), with which they identified either emotional state or actor gender. Although there were no gender differences in performance on BM tasks, a tight link occurred between recognition accuracy of emotions and gender through BM in males. In females only, body language reading (both accuracy and response time) was associated with performance on the RMET. The outcome underscores gender-specific modes in visual social cognition and triggers investigation of body language reading in a wide range of neuropsychiatric disorders.

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“…This points to their fundamental character. Gender (socio-cultural aspects) and sex (neurobiological aspects) impacts can be of substantial value, not only for better conceptualization of social cognition but also for understanding neuropsychiatric conditions, most of which are gender/sex specific (Pavlova, 2012(Pavlova, , 2017a.…”

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“…Faces and bodies provide us with a wealth of socially relevant information. Body language reading and face processing are indispensable components of non-verbal communication and interpersonal interaction constituting a core of social competence (de Gelder, 2009; Tamietto et al, 2009; Kret and de Gelder, 2012; Pavlova, 2012, 2017a,b; Pelphrey et al, 2014; Negro et al, 2015; Di Giorgio et al, 2017; Pavlova et al, 2017a). It has been suggested that social cognitive abilities and body motion processing are tightly linked and, therefore, performance on body motion tasks may serve a hallmark of social cognition (Pavlova, 2012): Individuals with such neurodevelopmental conditions as autistic spectrum disorders (ASD), Williams-Beuren syndrome (WS), DS, and survivors of premature birth who exhibit aberrant body motion processing, are also likely to be compromised on daily life social perception.…”

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Social Cognition in Down Syndrome: Face Tuning in Face-Like Non-Face Images

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Individuals with Down syndrome (DS) are widely believed to possess considerable socialization strengths. However, the findings on social cognition capabilities are controversial. In the present study, we investigated whether individuals with DS exhibit shortage in face tuning, one of the indispensable components of social cognition. For this purpose, we implemented a recently developed Face-n-Food paradigm with food-plate images composed of food ingredients such as fruits and vegetables. The key benefit of such face-like non-face images is that single elements do not facilitate face processing. In a spontaneous recognition task, 25 children with DS aged 9 to 18 years were presented with a set of Face-n-Food images bordering on the Giuseppe Arcimboldo style. The set of images was administered in a predetermined order from the least to most resembling a face. In DS individuals, thresholds for recognition of the Face-n-Food images as a face were drastically higher as compared not only with typically developing controls, but also with individuals with autistic spectrum disorders and Williams-Beuren syndrome. This outcome represents a significant step toward better conceptualization of the visual social world in DS and neurodevelopmental disorders in general.

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“…Many neuropsychiatric and neurodevelopmental conditions are characterized by impairments in visual social cognition, in particular, in body language reading and facial assessment of a social counterpart [ 45 – 52 ]. In turn, most diseases characterized by aberrant visual social cognition are gender-specific: females and males are differently affected in terms of clinical picture, prevalence, and severity [ 53 , 54 ]. The essential issue of how culture shapes face processing in mental disorders has been often overlooked in rigorous experimental research [ 55 – 57 ].…”

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Even subtle cultural differences affect face tuning

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Culture shapes social cognition in many ways. Yet cultural impact on face tuning remains largely unclear. Here typically developing females and males from the French-speaking part of Switzerland were presented with a set of Arcimboldo-like Face-n-Food images composed of food ingredients and in different degree resembling a face. The outcome had been compared with previous findings obtained in young adults of the South-West Germany. In that study, males exhibit higher thresholds for face tuning on the Face-n-Food task than females. In Swiss participants, no gender differences exist in face tuning. Strikingly, males from the French-speaking part of Switzerland possess higher sensitivity to faces than their German peers, whereas no difference in face tuning occurs between females. The outcome indicates that even relatively subtle cultural differences as well as culture by gender interaction can modulate social cognition. Clarification of the nature of cultural impact on face tuning as well as social cognition at large is of substantial value for understanding a wide range of neuropsychiatric and neurodevelopmental conditions.

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Emotion Science in the Twenty-First Century. Time, Sex, and Behavior in Emotion Science: Over and Above

Cited by 17 publications

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Untangling the Ties Between Social Cognition and Body Motion: Gender Impact

Untangling the Ties Between Social Cognition and Body Motion: Gender Impact

Social Cognition in Down Syndrome: Face Tuning in Face-Like Non-Face Images

Even subtle cultural differences affect face tuning

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