Points of View in the Perception of Facial Expressions of Emotion

1966 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 645-646
Author(s):  
W. Bruce Haslam ◽  
Darhl M. Pedersen
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Semantic Differential ◽  
Personality Variables ◽  
Facial Emotions ◽  
Facial Expressions Of Emotion ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The Individual

65 Ss rated each of 20 facial emotions on 20 semantic differential scales. An obverse factor analysis was completed on the ratings which yielded dimensions of viewpoint associated with the perception of facial expressions of emotion. Six of seven significant dimensions obtained were identified by significant correlations of the individual coefficients on each dimension with other personality variables.

scholarly journals Psychosemantic Research into the Phenomenon of Risk

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
O Chalikova
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Semantic Differential ◽  
Psychological Aspect ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Subjective Perception ◽  
Affective Attitude ◽  
Differential Technique ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Subjective View ◽  
Semantic Differential Technique

The psychological aspect of risk constitutes one of the most discussed issues of modern interdisciplinary research. The profession of the psychologist implies a range of situations of risk for a specialist at various stages of career development. This article presents the results of a psychosemantics research into perceptions of the phenomenon of risk as seen by the students of the Department of Psychology. The findings clarify the peculiarities of the semantic sphere regarding the risks at the initial stage of acquiring the profession. The research was conducted in 2017. The sample comprised 60 students of the Department of Psychology. This research was based on the semantic differential technique modified by I.L. Solomin. We altered and extendedthe list of objects in accordance with the research goals. The results were processed by means of cluster and factor analysis. The analysis of individual clustering trees revealed rather significant semantic variability between the researched objects. A few subgroups of respondents were distinguished according to the individual peculiarities of semantic fields regarding the object ‘risk’. With the help of factor analysis, thespecifics of the affective attitude toward the object ‘risk’ were determined for both the whole sample and the individual subgroups of respondents. The psychosemantics approach completes the picture of the study into the psychological aspect of risk in professional activity and enables to identify the topics, which clarify the subtle nuances of the meaning of the notion ‘risk’ in the conscience of a specialist. Thus,there are vagueness and ambiguity of the subjective view of risk by psychology students, ambivalence of the affective attitude to risk, and a range of semantic subgroups toward the notion ‘risk’. Keywords: risk, professional risk, psychology of risk, risks of a psychology-related profession, situation of risk, subjective perception of risk, students, psychosemantics approach, semantic differential technique, semantic field

scholarly journals Psychosemantical Approach to Volition Research

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
O Chalikova ◽  
D Kiseleva
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Semantic Differential ◽  
Differential Method ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Large Variability ◽  
Professional Activities ◽  
Group Success ◽  
Multidimensional Objects ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Group Object

The research into the ratio of objective and subjective indicators of the volitional qualities of an individual conducted by the Department of General and Social Psychology of the UrFU discovered some limitations of the corresponding approaches to such multidimensional objects as volition. The research into individual semanticfields of the concept of ‘volition’ will make up for the existing methodological gap in that area. The research was conducted in 2017. The sample consisted of 77 students of the Department of Psychology. The semantic differential method in the modification by I.L. Solomin was used as a basis. The list of objects has been changed and expanded according to the tasks of the research. The second method of research is the associative experiment. The results were processed by using the methods of cluster analysis, factor analysis and content analysis. An analysis of individual cluster trees discovered a rather large variability of the semantic relationships between the objects under study. Several sub-groups of respondents were identified according to the individual characteristics of the semantic fields in relation to the object ‘volition’, the sub-group ‘success of activities’, the sub-group ‘personality qualities’, the subgroup ‘negative objects’ and the sub-group ‘object is not defined’. Most students consider volition either as an applied tool of educational or professional activities, or as a self-sufficient personal mechanism. With the help of factor analysis, the features of the affective attitude toward the object ‘volition’ in respect to the sample as a whole are revealed. The associative experiment made it possible to identify the key topic markers that characterize the volition of respondents of different semantic sub-groups. For the sub-group ‘success of activities’, it is ‘power’; it is ‘time’ for the sub-group ‘personality qualities’, in particular, ‘responsibility’; it is ‘firmness’ for the sub-group ‘negative objects’. The psychosemantics approach in studying volition allows us to identify topics that clarify the semantic nuances of the concept of ‘volition’ in the minds of the subjects. The method of the semantic differential and the method of associative experiment are mutually complementary with respect to research into the semantic sphere of a personality. The results obtained provide a necessary part of a comprehensive study of volition and the volitional qualities of aperson. Keywords: volition, volitional qualities, responsibility, students, psychosemantic approach, semantic differential, semantic field, associative experiment, semantic structures of consciousness, representations, individuality, cluster trees, topic markers

scholarly journals Dissociable Effects of Faces on Attention During Constrained and Unconstrained Viewing

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amelia R. Hunt ◽  
Arash Sahraie ◽  
Neil Macrae
Keyword(s):  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Ecological Validity ◽  
Attentional Biases ◽  
Large Individual ◽  
Waiting Room ◽  
Facial Emotions ◽  
Emotional Faces ◽  
Highly Sensitive ◽  
Facial Expressions Of Emotion ◽  
Stimulus Classes

It has long been proposed that some stimulus classes are so biologically important that they are automatically prioritized by the attention system, irrespective of context. However, issues of ecological validity undermine laboratory-based experiments that attempt to establish the existence of context-independent attentional biases. Here we measured attention to faces and facial expressions of emotion while participants were sitting in a waiting room before the experiment, and again in the same individuals in a laboratory-based reaction-time (RT) task. A robust bias towards images of faces was observed in the waiting room, but not in the RT task. Conversely, a robust attentional bias towards emotional faces was observed in the RT task, but not in the waiting room. Despite large individual differences in attentional biases towards face and facial emotions, measures of bias in a given individual in one setting did not predict their bias in another. We conclude that attentional capture by faces and facial emotions is highly sensitive to context.

BEHAVIORAL PREDICTIONS BASED ON PERCEPTIONS OF FACIAL EXPRESSIONS OF EMOTION

1983 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Matsumoto
Keyword(s):  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Current Theory ◽  
Feeling States ◽  
Affective Processes ◽  
Facial Expressions Of Emotion ◽  
Behavioral Predictions ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Affective Expressions

Current theory and research on the emotions have tended to overlook the importance and possible role of perception on the activation of or change in the feeling states of the individual. Consequently the interaction of the perceptual subsystem with the individual in a predictive or behavioral way has likewise been largely ignored by emotion researchers. Ironically other fields of research give us some insight into the perceptual and affective processes. In this study subjects were presented with thirty different photographs of people posing in several different emotions. In addition to asking some “traditional” questions as identifying the emotion expressed or rating how strongly or well the emotions were communicated, subjects were also asked to make predictions as to how often they would either see or perform each expression. The pattern of results obtained was generally consistent with what was expected, and were important in at least two ways: (1) Neutral expressions were found to vary in similar ways with other affective expressions, implying that what we have been considering as neutral may in actuality be a lower-level interaction of affects, rather than a state of non-affect; (2) these results open the way for studies involving the process of perception, and provide a framework from which we can describe the role of the perceptual subsystem within the affect system.

A Factorial Determination of Points of View in Poetic Evaluation and Their Relation to Various Determinants

1965 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard D. Rees ◽  
Darhl M. Pedersen
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Semantic Differential ◽  
Analytic Study ◽  
Factor Analytic ◽  
Factor Analytic Study ◽  
Points Of View

A factor analytic study designed to yield “points of view” or “idealized individuals” with respect to the evaluation of poetry. The poems used as stimuli were selected as representative of 11 poetic periods and were rated by 74 Ss on 15 evaluative semantic differential scales. An obverse factor analysis was completed which resulted in 49 bipolar factors. These factors were rotated orthogonally by the normal varimax method. Six of these rotated factors were determined to be significant and were then correlated with a number of outside variables to assist in their interpretation. This procedure resulted in the identification of four of these six factors. The identified factors which represented different points of view regarding the evaluation of poetry were labeled “familiarity,” “masculine uncooperativeness,” “extraversion,” and “sophistication.”

Perception of Emotional Expressions in Adults

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chit Yuen Yi ◽  
Matthew W. E. Murry ◽  
Amy L. Gentzler
Keyword(s):  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Negative Mood ◽  
Emotion Perception ◽  
State Level ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Negative Emotionality ◽  
Basic Emotions ◽  
Perceived Intensity ◽  
Trait Level ◽  
Facial Expressions Of Emotion

Abstract. Past research suggests that transient mood influences the perception of facial expressions of emotion, but relatively little is known about how trait-level emotionality (i.e., temperament) may influence emotion perception or interact with mood in this process. Consequently, we extended earlier work by examining how temperamental dimensions of negative emotionality and extraversion were associated with the perception accuracy and perceived intensity of three basic emotions and how the trait-level temperamental effect interacted with state-level self-reported mood in a sample of 88 adults (27 men, 18–51 years of age). The results indicated that higher levels of negative mood were associated with higher perception accuracy of angry and sad facial expressions, and higher levels of perceived intensity of anger. For perceived intensity of sadness, negative mood was associated with lower levels of perceived intensity, whereas negative emotionality was associated with higher levels of perceived intensity of sadness. Overall, our findings added to the limited literature on adult temperament and emotion perception.

Psychopathy and Identification of Facial Expressions of Emotion

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark E. Hastings ◽  
June P. Tangney ◽  
Jeffrey Stuewig
Keyword(s):  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Facial Expressions Of Emotion

Capacity-Free Automatic Processing of Facial Expressions of Emotion

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua W Maxwell ◽  
Eric Ruthruff ◽  
michael joseph
Keyword(s):  
Facial Expression ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Face Processing ◽  
Emotional Expressions ◽  
Facial Expression Of Emotion ◽  
Expression Of Emotion ◽  
Facial Expressions Of Emotion ◽  
Correspondence Effect ◽  
Experimental Logic ◽  
Face Task

Are facial expressions of emotion processed automatically? Some authors have not found this to be the case (Tomasik et al., 2009). Here we revisited the question with a novel experimental logic – the backward correspondence effect (BCE). In three dual-task studies, participants first categorized a sound (Task 1) and then indicated the location of a target face (Task 2). In Experiment 1, Task 2 required participants to search for one facial expression of emotion (angry or happy). We observed positive BCEs, indicating that facial expressions of emotion bypassed the central attentional bottleneck and thus were processed in a capacity-free, automatic manner. In Experiment 2, we replicated this effect but found that morphed emotional expressions (which were used by Tomasik) were not processed automatically. In Experiment 3, we observed similar BCEs for another type of face processing previously shown to be capacity-free – identification of familiar faces (Jung et al., 2013). We conclude that facial expressions of emotion are identified automatically when sufficiently unambiguous.

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