Emotion Regulation in High and Low Socially Anxious Individuals: An Experimental Study Investigating Emotional Mimicry, Emotion Recognition, and Self-Reported Emotion Regulation

Peter-Ruf, Claudia; Kirmse, Ursula; Pfeiffer, Simone; Schmid, Marc; Wilhelm, Frank H.; In‐Albon, Tina

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“…Altered mimicry in emotion recognition in SAD and ASD. Studies investigating the effects of social anxiety (disorder) on facial mimicry have reported inconsistent results: while some studies found intact mimicry in non-clinical but high socially anxious individuals 19,54 , others demonstrated enhanced mimicry of negative expressions and diminished mimicry of positive ones 55,56 or stronger differential muscle activity between happy and angry expressions, for both the zygomaticus and the corrugator 57 . The literature on ASD gives a clearer picture: reduced automatic mimicry in individuals on the autism spectrum has been reported in many studies 8,58 .…”

Section: Emotion Recognition Alterations In Sad and Asdmentioning

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Facial mimicry and metacognitive judgments in emotion recognition are distinctly modulated by social anxiety and autistic traits

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Akdağ

Nikolić

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Facial mimicry as well as the accurate assessment of one's performance when judging others’ emotional expressions have been suggested to inform successful emotion recognition. Differences in the integration of these two information sources might explain alterations in the perception of others’ emotions in individuals with Social Anxiety Disorder and individuals on the autism spectrum. Using a non-clinical sample (N = 57), we examined the role of social anxiety and autistic traits in the link between facial mimicry, or confidence in one’s performance, and emotion recognition. While participants were presented with videos of spontaneous emotional facial expressions, we measured their facial muscle activity, asked them to label the expressions and indicate their confidence in accurately labelling the expressions. Our results showed that confidence in emotion recognition was lower with higher social anxiety traits even though actual recognition was not related to social anxiety traits. Higher autistic traits, in contrast, were associated with worse recognition, and a weakened link between facial mimicry and performance. Consequently, high social anxiety traits might not affect emotion recognition itself, but the top-down evaluation of own abilities in emotion recognition contexts. High autistic traits, in contrast, may be related to lower integration of sensorimotor simulations, which promote emotion recognition.

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Section: Emotion Recognition Alterations In Sad and Asdmentioning

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Facial mimicry and metacognitive judgments in emotion recognition are distinctly modulated by social anxiety and autistic traits

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“…The ability to automatically (unconsciously) mimic or imitate the facial expressions of others is a fundamental aspect of social behavior and is linked to various outcomes such as liking, dyadic rapport, emotional contagion, and the perception and interpretation of emotions ( Vaughan and Lanzetta, 1981 ; Brothers, 1990 ; Hatfield et al, 1992 ; Cappella, 1993 ; Lundqvist and Dimberg, 1995 ). Unfortunately, this critical mimicking reflex is impaired in individuals with clinical disorders such as depression ( Sloan et al, 2002 ; Zwick and Wolkenstein, 2017 ), alexithymia ( Schiano Lomoriello et al, 2021 ), and other disorders ( McIntosh et al, 2006 ; Varcin et al, 2010 ; Peter-Ruf et al, 2017 ; Passardi et al, 2019 ; Ziebell et al, 2021 ). There is even evidence that non-clinical samples with negative moods ( Ingram and Hamilton, 1999 ) also have disrupted automatic mimicry ( Sloan et al, 2002 ; Lautzenhiser, 2003 ), pointing to the possibility that even mild negative mood (NM) can disrupt mimicry behavior.…”

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The association of negative mood with automatic and effortful facial expression mimicry

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The natural process of mimicking the facial expressions of others is well established, as are the deficits in this reflexive behavior for individuals with clinical disorders such as depression. This study examines the extent of this deficit in non-clinical individuals with high transient negative mood, and whether it extends to both automatic and effortful emotion expression behavior. One hundred and thirty-six participants were shown happy, sad, and neutral faces, while electromyography (EMG) recorded facial muscle responses. Automatic (reflexive) mimicry was assessed while participants simply viewed facially expressive photographs, while effortful mimicry was monitored when individuals were told to intentionally copy the expressions in the photographs. Results indicated that high levels of negative mood were primarily associated with deficits in effortful mimicry of happy expressions, although some similar evidence was found in automatic mimicry of happy faces. Surprisingly, there were also ties between negative moods and inaccuracies in effortful mimicry of sad expressions (but not automatic mimicry). Inaccurate automatic and effortful mimicry were also tied with lower self-reported social support and greater loneliness. These results indicate that even in healthy individuals, transient and minor changes in negative mood are tied to deficiencies in facial mimicry at both the automatic and effortful level.

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A Deep Learning Based Approach To Recognize Real Time Emotions

Vatsa

Gupta

2022

2022 5th International Conference on Contemporary Computing and Informatics (IC3I)

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Emotion Regulation in High and Low Socially Anxious Individuals: An Experimental Study Investigating Emotional Mimicry, Emotion Recognition, and Self-Reported Emotion Regulation

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Facial mimicry and metacognitive judgments in emotion recognition are distinctly modulated by social anxiety and autistic traits

Facial mimicry and metacognitive judgments in emotion recognition are distinctly modulated by social anxiety and autistic traits

The association of negative mood with automatic and effortful facial expression mimicry

A Deep Learning Based Approach To Recognize Real Time Emotions

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