Emotional voices modulate perception and predictions about an upcoming face

Pell, Marc D.; Sethi, Sameer; Rigoulot, Simon; Rothermich, Kathrin; Liu, Pan; Jiang, Xiaoming

doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2021.12.017

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“…Our results thus show that hostile tendencies in the perceptual and social-cognitive domains partly extend to the instrumental acquisition of aggressive responses during interpersonal confrontations. Future studies should test whether HEX acquisition also generalizes to other cognitive functions, such as memory (preferential encoding and retrieval of hostile information [ 68 ]) or perception in other sensory modalities (e.g., hostile interpretations of ambiguous vocalizations [ 69 ]). To that end, experimental designs could be optimized so that tasks are more readily comparable to each other.…”

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Aggressive and psychopathic traits are linked to the acquisition of stable but imprecise hostile expectations

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Individuals with hostile expectations (HEX) anticipate harm from seemingly neutral or ambiguous stimuli. However, it is unclear how HEX are acquired, and whether specific components of HEX learning can predict antisocial thought, conduct, and personality. In an online sample of healthy young individuals (n = 256, 69% women), we administered a virtual shooting task and applied computational modelling of behaviour to investigate HEX learning and its constellation of correlates. HEX acquisition was best explained by a hierarchical reinforcement learning mechanism. Crucially, we found that individuals with relatively higher self-reported aggressiveness and psychopathy developed stronger and less accurate hostile beliefs as well as larger prediction errors. Moreover, aggressive and psychopathic traits were associated with more temporally stable hostility representations. Our study thus shows that aggressiveness and psychopathy are linked with the acquisition of robust yet imprecise hostile beliefs through reinforcement learning.

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Aggressive and psychopathic traits are linked to the acquisition of stable but imprecise hostile expectations

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“…Our results thus show that hostile tendencies in the perceptual and social-cognitive domains partly extend to the instrumental acquisition of aggressive responses during interpersonal confrontations. Future studies should test whether HEX acquisition also generalizes to other cognitive functions, such as memory (preferential encoding and retrieval of hostile information 69 ) or perception in other sensory modalities (e.g., hostile interpretations of ambiguous vocalizations 70 ). To that end, experimental designs could be optimized so that tasks are more readily comparable to each other.…”

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Aggressive and psychopathic traits are linked to the acquisition of stable but imprecise hostile expectations

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Smeijers²,

Gallardo-Pujol³

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Individuals with hostile expectations (HEX) anticipate harm from seemingly neutral or ambiguous stimuli, and this can trigger antisocial behaviour. However, it is unclear how HEX are acquired, how the level of environmental threat affects the learning process, and to what extent HEX acquisition predicts real-world measures of antisocial thought, conduct, and personality. In an online sample of healthy young individuals (n=256, 70% women), we administered a virtual shooting task and employed computational modelling of behaviour to investigate HEX learning under high and low threat, respectively. We found that HEX acquisition was best explained by a two-level hierarchical Bayesian model of reinforcement learning, and that a threatening context facilitated HEX. The tendency to shoot under threat was correlated with hostile appraisals of angry faces in a separate task, which speaks for a general hostility bias across learning and perception. Crucially, we also examined whether computational measures of cognitive processes involved in HEX learning predicted real-world indices of antisocial tendencies. Structural equation modelling revealed that individuals with relatively higher self-reported aggressiveness and psychopathy developed more pronounced and uncertain hostile beliefs as well as stronger prediction errors in a high- but not in a low-threat context. Surprisingly, aggressive and psychopathic traits were further associated with more temporally stable hostility representations under high threat. Our study thus shows that HEX acquisition stems from an exaggerated coupling of ambiguous stimuli with hostile outcomes via reinforcement learning, and that aggressiveness and psychopathy are linked with strong yet imprecise hostile beliefs.

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“…This hypothesis is not without precedents. In recent work,Pell et al (2022) provide evidence for the hypothesis that the perception of emotional voice can affect the subsequent perception of facial expressions.…”

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Affective Affordances Direct Perception Meets Affectivity

Carvalho¹

2022

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In this paper, I explore and examine different ways in which affectivity is related to perception within ecological psychology. I assess whether some of those ways compromise the realist and direct aspects of traditional ecological perception. I sustain that they don't. Affectivity, at least in some cases, turns the perception of finegrained affordances possible. For an engaged perceiver, affectivity is not optional.

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Emotional voices modulate perception and predictions about an upcoming face

Cited by 8 publications

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Aggressive and psychopathic traits are linked to the acquisition of stable but imprecise hostile expectations

Aggressive and psychopathic traits are linked to the acquisition of stable but imprecise hostile expectations

Aggressive and psychopathic traits are linked to the acquisition of stable but imprecise hostile expectations

Affective Affordances Direct Perception Meets Affectivity

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