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Context is routinely encoded during emotion perception
Lisa Feldman Barrett et al. Psychol Sci. 2010 Apr.
Abstract
In the present study, we investigated whether context is routinely encoded during emotion perception. For the first time, we show that people remember the context more often when asked to label an emotion in a facial expression than when asked to judge the expression's simple affective significance (which can be done on the basis of the structural features of the face alone). Our findings are consistent with an emerging literature showing that facial muscle actions (i.e., structural features of the face), when viewed in isolation, might be insufficient for perceiving emotion.
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Declaration of Conflicting Interests: The authors declared that they had no conflicts of interest with respect to their authorship or the publication of this article.
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Fig. 1
Examples of the experimental stimuli. In each scene, the image of a fearful, neutral, or disgusting object or (from top to bottom) a fearful, neutral, or disgusted facial expression was superimposed on a neutral context, such as a supermarket, a desert, or insects on a log in a lake.
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