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| The influence of language context on facial expression processing |
| LI Wan-yue1; TAN Qun2; LIU Shen3; HAN Shang-feng1,4; ZHANG Lin1; XU Qiang1 |
| (1. Department and Institute of Psychology, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China; 2. Heze University, Heze 274015, China; 3. School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230022, China; 4. Department of Psychology, College of Psychology and Sociology; Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Affective and
Social Cognitive Science, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China)
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Abstract In order to explore the role of language context information in facial expression processing and recognition, the first experiment of this study investigated the effect of emotionality and self-relevance of language context on the processing of neutral emotional faces, and the second experiment investigated the effect on the processing of fear faces with different intensities. It was found that: The valence of neutral face was affected by the emotional type of language context information, and the valence of neutral faces in the positive contexts were significant higher than that in negative contexts. The arousal of neutral faces was affected by the self-relevance of language contextual information, and the arousal of neutral faces in the self-related context were significantly higher than that in other-related contexts. The emotional type of language contextual information also affect the judgment of facial expressions of different emotional intensity. Specifically, regardless of the intensity of emotion, the fearful faces in the negative language contexts were easier to be identified. Therefore, these findings suggest that the processing of facial expression was affected by the emotional and self-relevance of language contextual information. The effect of language context on the emotion inducing and enhancement of neutral faces, and the promoting effect of the faces to different emotional intensity when the emotional type of the language context and the face were consistent.
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Published: 28 June 2019
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