Effect-based control of facial expressions: evidence from action-effect compatibility |
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Authors: | Kunde Wilfried Lozo Ljubica Neumann Roland |
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Institution: | (1) Julius-Maximilians-Universit?t W?rzburg, Lehrstuhl f?r Psychologie III, R?ntgenring 11, 97070 W?rzburg, Germany;(2) Department of Psychology, Technische Universit?t Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany;(3) Department of Psychology, Universit?t Trier, Trier, Germany |
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Abstract: | Facial expressions such as smiling or frowning are normally followed by, and often aim at, the observation of corresponding
facial expressions in social counterparts. Given this contingency between one’s own and other persons’ facial expressions,
the production of such facial actions might be the subject of so-called action–effect compatibility effects. In the present
Experiment 1, we confirmed this assumption. Participants were required to smile or frown. The generation of these expressions was harder
when participants produced predictable feedback from a virtual counterpart that was incompatible with their own facial expression;
for example, smiling produced the presentation of a frowning face. The results of Experiment 2 revealed that this effect vanishes with inverted faces as action feedback, which shows that the phenomenon is bound to the
instantaneous emotional interpretation of the feedback. These results comply with the assumption that the generation of facial
expressions is controlled by an anticipation of these expressions’ effects in the social environment. |
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