The effect of facial feedback on the evaluation of statements describing everyday situations and the role of awareness

Kaiser, Jakob

doi:10.1016/j.concog.2017.05.006

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“…In summary, the results of Study 1 showed that participants had better judgment of intense micro-expressions with a duration of 450 ms when their skin of upper face had been made resistant to underlying muscle contractions via a restricting gel. Previous studies on embodied cognition found that facial feedback might aid emotion perception (e.g., Ipser and Cook, 2015 ; Lobmaier and Fischer, 2015 ; Kaiser and Gcl, 2017 ). Researchers found the existence and influence of facial feedback upon numerous cognitive processes, such as recognition of subtle or ambiguous expressions, evaluation of the emotional meanings of expressions, language comprehension, and etc.…”

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A False Trail to Follow: Differential Effects of the Facial Feedback Signals From the Upper and Lower Face on the Recognition of Micro-Expressions

Zeng

Zhang

et al. 2018

Front. Psychol.

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Micro-expressions, as fleeting facial expressions, are very important for judging people’s true emotions, thus can provide an essential behavioral clue for lie and dangerous demeanor detection. From embodied accounts of cognition, we derived a novel hypothesis that facial feedback from upper and lower facial regions has differential effects on micro-expression recognition. This hypothesis was tested and supported across three studies. Specifically, the results of Study 1 showed that people became better judges of intense micro-expressions with a duration of 450 ms when the facial feedback from upper face was enhanced via a restricting gel. Additional results of Study 2 showed that the recognition accuracy of subtle micro-expressions was significantly impaired under all duration conditions (50, 150, 333, and 450 ms) when facial feedback from lower face was enhanced. In addition, the results of Study 3 also revealed that blocking the facial feedback of lower face, significantly boosted the recognition accuracy of subtle and intense micro-expressions under all duration conditions (150 and 450 ms). Together, these results highlight the role of facial feedback in judging the subtle movements of micro-expressions.

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A False Trail to Follow: Differential Effects of the Facial Feedback Signals From the Upper and Lower Face on the Recognition of Micro-Expressions

Zeng

Zhang

et al. 2018

Front. Psychol.

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“…likeability taps into approach/avoidance), but such general categories do not overlap with discrete emotion categories we use (Mauss & Robinson, 2009). In addition, testing the effects of emotional mimicry on social evaluations provides an important extension to the facial feedback hypothesis (Kaiser & Davey, 2017).…”

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Mimicking and sharing emotions: a re-examination of the link between facial mimicry and emotional contagion

Olszanowski

Wróbel

Heß

2019

Cognition and Emotion

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Facial mimicry has long been considered a main mechanism underlying emotional contagion (i.e. the transfer of emotions between people). A closer look at the empirical evidence, however, reveals that although these two phenomena often co-occur, the changes in emotional expressions may not necessarily be causally linked to the changes in subjective emotional experience. Here, we directly investigate this link, by testing a model in which facial activity served as a mediator between the observed emotional displays and subsequently felt emotions (i.e. emotional contagion). Participants watched videos of different senders displaying happiness, anger, or sadness, while their facial activity was recorded. After each video, participants rated their own emotions and assessed the senders' likeability and competence. Participants both mimicked and reported feeling the emotions displayed by the senders. Moreover, their facial activity partially explained the association between the senders' emotional displays and self-reported emotions, thereby supporting the notion that facial mimicry may be involved in emotional contagion.

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“…From that perspective, it is encouraging to see recent follow-ups on the facial feedback effect, which suggest that not only conceptually relevant (such as self-monitoring or self-awareness; A. A. Marsh et al, 2019; Noah et al, 2018; see also Kaiser & Davey, 2017) but also conceptually irrelevant context characteristics—such as the specific stimuli that are used (Coles et al, 2019a)—moderate the effect and explain why some studies find it and others do not. Such endeavors contribute to a truly cumulative science (e.g., Coles et al, 2019b).…”

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“…A. Marsh et al, 2019;Noah et al, 2018; see also Kaiser & Davey, 2017) but also conceptually irrelevant context characteristics-such as the specific stimuli that are used (Coles et al, 2019a)-moderate the effect and explain why some studies find it and others do not. Such endeavors contribute to a truly cumulative science (e.g., Coles et al, 2019b).…”

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Context Dependency as a Predictor of Replicability

Gollwitzer

Schwabe

2021

Review of General Psychology

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We scrutinize the argument that unsuccessful replications—and heterogeneous effect sizes more generally—may reflect an underappreciated influence of context characteristics. Notably, while some of these context characteristics may be conceptually irrelevant (as they merely affect psychometric properties of the measured/manipulated variables), others are conceptually relevant as they qualify a theory. Here, we present a conceptual and analytical framework that allows researchers to empirically estimate the extent to which effect size heterogeneity is due to conceptually relevant versus irrelevant context characteristics. According to this framework, contextual characteristics are conceptually relevant when the observed heterogeneity of effect sizes cannot be attributed to psychometric properties. As an illustrative example, we demonstrate that the observed heterogeneity of the “moral typecasting” effect, which had been included in the ManyLabs 2 replication project, is more likely attributable to conceptually relevant rather than irrelevant context characteristics, which suggests that the psychological theory behind this effect may need to be specified. In general, we argue that context dependency should be taken more seriously and treated more carefully by replication research.

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The effect of facial feedback on the evaluation of statements describing everyday situations and the role of awareness

Cited by 7 publications

References 64 publications

A False Trail to Follow: Differential Effects of the Facial Feedback Signals From the Upper and Lower Face on the Recognition of Micro-Expressions

A False Trail to Follow: Differential Effects of the Facial Feedback Signals From the Upper and Lower Face on the Recognition of Micro-Expressions

Mimicking and sharing emotions: a re-examination of the link between facial mimicry and emotional contagion

Context Dependency as a Predictor of Replicability

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