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A differing bidirectional impact on the recognition accuracy of facial expression
Author(s) -
Wang Jingjing,
Li Weijian,
Li Xinyu,
Li Ping,
Zhang Yuchi,
Jia Xiaoyu,
Chen Yue,
Vanhoy Mickie,
Sun Binghai
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
international journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.75
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1464-066X
pISSN - 0020-7594
DOI - 10.1002/ijop.12371
Subject(s) - facial expression , communication source , psychology , observer (physics) , facial expression recognition , openness to experience , expression (computer science) , facial action coding system , feature (linguistics) , facial recognition system , communication , speech recognition , pattern recognition (psychology) , artificial intelligence , cognitive psychology , computer science , social psychology , linguistics , telecommunications , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , programming language
This study explored a bidirectional impact on the recognition accuracy of various facial expressions deriving from both the observer and sender in a sample of Chinese participants. A facial manipulation task was used to examine the ability of an observer's facial feedback to modulate the recognition of various facial expressions. Furthermore, the effect of a sender's facial expression with an open or closed mouth on recognition accuracy was investigated. The results showed that only recognition accuracy of a sad facial expression was influenced simultaneously by bidirectional sources from a sender and observer. Moreover, the impact of the unidirectional cue of a sender's facial feature (i.e., mouth openness) on happy and neutral faces was found to influence the recognition accuracy of these faces, but not the observer's bodily state. These findings indicate that the bidirectional impact derived from an observer and sender on facial expression recognition accuracy differs for emotional and neutral expressions.