Perceiving facial emotions in context: The intertwined roles of emotional valence and consciousness.

IF 3.6 2区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL
Emotion Pub Date : 2025-08-25 DOI:10.1037/emo0001581
Yujie Chen, Yi Jiang, Ying Wang
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Abstract

Facial emotion perception in real life is inevitably influenced by the affective context, such as the expressions on nearby people's faces. However, to what extent and how the expressions of others exert a contextual influence on our interpretation of target facial emotions remains largely unclear. Using psychophysical methods, we demonstrated that the emotional facial context alone (i.e., without any evident social interaction cues) is sufficient to bias the perceived expression of an ambiguous target face (N = 160, healthy Asian college students, 2017-2025). Intriguingly, the contextual effect induced by faces with fearful, but not happy, expressions was regulated by observers' awareness of the context. For fearful contexts, the contextual effect showed a dissociation between nonconscious and conscious conditions, occurring only when the contextual face was not consciously perceived. By contrast, contextual faces expressing happiness biased emotion perception regardless of awareness. These findings broaden our understanding of the affective contextual effect in situations without explicit social relationships. More crucially, they unveil the intertwined roles of emotional valence and consciousness in emotional information integration, offering valuable insights into the intricate mechanisms whereby affective context shapes facial emotion perception. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

情境中面部情绪的感知:情绪效价和意识的交织作用。
现实生活中的面部情绪感知不可避免地会受到情感情境的影响,比如周围人的面部表情。然而,他人的表情在多大程度上以及如何对我们对目标面部情绪的解释产生语境影响,这在很大程度上仍不清楚。采用心理物理学方法,我们证明了情绪性面部情境本身(即没有任何明显的社会互动线索)足以使模糊目标面部的感知表情产生偏差(N = 160,健康的亚洲大学生,2017-2025)。有趣的是,带有恐惧而非快乐表情的面孔所引起的情境效应是由观察者对情境的意识所调节的。对于恐惧情境,情境效应显示出无意识和有意识条件之间的分离,只有在情境面孔没有被有意识地感知时才会发生。相比之下,无论是否意识到,表达快乐的情境面孔都会影响情绪感知。这些发现拓宽了我们对在没有明确社会关系的情况下的情感语境效应的理解。更重要的是,他们揭示了情绪效价和意识在情绪信息整合中的相互交织的作用,为情感环境塑造面部情绪感知的复杂机制提供了有价值的见解。(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA,版权所有)。
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Emotion
Emotion PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL-
CiteScore
8.40
自引率
7.10%
发文量
325
审稿时长
8 weeks
期刊介绍: Emotion publishes significant contributions to the study of emotion from a wide range of theoretical traditions and research domains. The journal includes articles that advance knowledge and theory about all aspects of emotional processes, including reports of substantial empirical studies, scholarly reviews, and major theoretical articles. Submissions from all domains of emotion research are encouraged, including studies focusing on cultural, social, temperament and personality, cognitive, developmental, health, or biological variables that affect or are affected by emotional functioning. Both laboratory and field studies are appropriate for the journal, as are neuroimaging studies of emotional processes.
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