Anxiety-Related Bias in the Classification of Emotionally Ambiguous Facial Expressions

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作者
Richards, Anne [1 ]
French, Christopher C. [2 ]
Calder, Andrew J. [3 ]
Webb, Ben [2 ]
Fox, Rachel [2 ]
Young, Andrew W. [4 ]
机构
[1] Univ London, Birkbeck Coll, Sch Psychol, London WC1E 7HX, England
[2] Univ London, Goldsmiths Coll, Dept Psychol, London WC1E 7HX, England
[3] MRC Cognit & Brain Sci Unit, Cambridge, England
[4] Univ York, Dept Psychol, York YO10 5DD, N Yorkshire, England
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10.1037/1528-3542.2.3.273
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B84 [心理学];
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04 ; 0402 ;
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High- and low-trait socially anxious individuals classified the emotional expressions of photographic quality continua of interpolated ("morphed") facial images that were derived from combining 6 basic prototype emotional expressions to various degrees, with the 2 adjacent emotions arranged in an emotion hexagon. When fear was 1 of the 2 component emotions, the high-trait group displayed enhanced sensitivity for fear. In a 2nd experiment where a mood manipulation was incorporated, again, the high-trait group exhibited enhanced sensitivity for fear. The low-trait group was sensitive for happiness in the control condition. The mood-manipulated group had increased sensitivity for anger expressions, and trait anxiety did not moderate these effects. Interpretations of the results related to the classification of fearful expressions are discussed.
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