Seeing What You Feel: Affect Drives Visual Perception of Structurally Neutral Faces
| Autor: | Karen S. Quigley, Erika H. Siegel, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Jolie B. Wormwood |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Male Visual perception genetic structures Adolescent Sensory system Context (language use) Affect (psychology) 050105 experimental psychology 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Phenomenon Task Performance and Analysis Continuous flash suppression Humans Learning 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences General Psychology Research Articles Social perception 05 social sciences Facial Expression Affect Face Visual Perception Female Psychology Facial Recognition 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Realism psychological phenomena and processes Cognitive psychology |
| Popis: | Affective realism, the phenomenon whereby affect is integrated into an individual’s experience of the world, is a normal consequence of how the brain processes sensory information from the external world in the context of sensations from the body. In the present investigation, we provided compelling empirical evidence that affective realism involves changes in visual perception (i.e., affect changes how participants see neutral stimuli). In two studies, we used an interocular suppression technique, continuous flash suppression, to present affective images outside of participants’ conscious awareness. We demonstrated that seen neutral faces are perceived as more smiling when paired with unseen affectively positive stimuli. Study 2 also demonstrated that seen neutral faces are perceived as more scowling when paired with unseen affectively negative stimuli. These findings have implications for real-world situations and challenge beliefs that affect is a distinct psychological phenomenon that can be separated from cognition and perception. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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