The Influence of Key Facial Features on Recognition of Emotion in Cartoon Faces

Zhang, Shu; Liu, Xinge; Yang, Xuan; Shu, Yezhi; Liu, Niqi; Zhang, Dan; Liu, Yong-Jin

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.687974

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“…It should be also considered that enjoyment was the only positive emotion, while there were three emotions with negative valence (fear, anger, (e.g., sadness) (Gupta, 2019;Gupta & Srinivasan, 2015). In accordance with this, another study showed that positive emotions in cartoons are better recognized than negative emotions (Zhang et al, 2021), which again is in line with our findings.…”

Section: Followers' Perception Of Emotions In Social Media Historysupporting

confidence: 91%

#Histagram: Investigating Emotions in Historical Representations on Instagram

Zargar,

Frentzel-Beyme,

Lewers

et al. 2023

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In the last years many projects addressing historical topics were launched on social media. Among educating about the past, the aim of such formats is to create subjective, emotional insights into the past. However, making use of emotions in historical learning contexts is broadly debated within the community of history didactics. It is assumed that emotionally charged presentations overwhelm individuals emotionally and reduce their ability to distance themselves from the presentation. However, whether such presentations indeed make use of emotional presentations remains unclear. Therefore, this investigation aimed to examine the amount and extend of emotionality within historical representations on Instagram. We conducted a qualitative content analysis on the nonverbally expressed emotions in historical social media posts, to see if emotions are used and recognizable in such posts at all. We found that in almost all posts in which people are shown emotions were displayed. Building on these findings, we exploratory investigated in a quantitative online experiment (N = 170) whether the presentation of emotions in social media posts of a historical figure could lead related emotions. The results showed that Instagram posts showing negative emotions via nonverbal cues more likely lead to the report of negative emotions than positive and vice versa. Consequently, the study’s findings contribute first empirical evidence to the ongoing debate of history didactics about the usage of emotions in historical social media learning settings and their potential to influence the followers’ emotional states.

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Section: Followers' Perception Of Emotions In Social Media Historysupporting

confidence: 91%

#Histagram: Investigating Emotions in Historical Representations on Instagram

Zargar,

Frentzel-Beyme,

Lewers

et al. 2023

Preprint

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“…Eye contact is a crucial affiliative social behavior that has been reported from the start of infancy ( Ferrari et al, 2009 ). Primates, in particular, possess facial features (e.g., prominent irises and eyebrows, articulate mouth, and facial muscles) optimized to attract gaze and signal intention and feelings ( Zhang et al, 2021 ). More broadly, many animals depend on collective behaviors for survival that must be coordinated and executed at the level of a pack, flock, swarm, or school ( Norris and Schilt, 1988 ; Stander, 1992 ).…”

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Lateral Habenula Responses During Eye Contact in a Reward Conditioning Task

Lee

Hikosaka

2022

Front. Behav. Neurosci.

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For many animals, social interaction may have intrinsic reward value over and above its utility as a means to the desired end. Eye contact is the starting point of interactions in many social animals, including primates, and abnormal patterns of eye contact are present in many mental disorders. Whereas abundant previous studies have shown that negative emotions such as fear strongly affect eye contact behavior, modulation of eye contact by reward has received scant attention. Here we recorded eye movement patterns and neural activity in lateral habenula while monkeys viewed faces in the context of Pavlovian and instrumental conditioning tasks. Faces associated with larger rewards spontaneously elicited longer periods of eye contact from the monkeys, even though this behavior was not required or advantaged in the task. Concurrently, lateral habenula neurons were suppressed by faces signaling high value and excited by faces signaling low value. These results suggest that the reward signaling of lateral habenula may contribute to social behavior and disorders, presumably through its connections with the basal ganglia.

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“…The mouths comprised a straight horizontal line, an upward-curved or a downward-curved mouth line. An upward-curved mouth signals positive mood or happiness whereas a downward-curved mouth is perceived as expressing negative affects such as sadness or disgust ( Wierzbicka, 1999 ; Zhang et al, 2021 ). The line drawings were black on white background.…”

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The Relations of Attention to and Clarity of Feelings With Facial Affect Perception

Suslow

Kersting

2022

Front. Psychol.

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Attention to emotions and emotional clarity are core dimensions of individual differences in emotion awareness. Findings from prior research based on self-report indicate that attention to and recognition of one’s own emotions are related to attention to and recognition of other people’s emotions. In the present experimental study, we examined the relations of attention to and clarity of emotions with the efficiency of facial affect perception. Moreover, it was explored whether attention to and clarity of emotions are linked to negative interpretations of facial expressions. A perception of facial expressions (PFE) task based on schematic faces with neutral, ambiguous, or unambiguous emotional expressions and a gender decision task were administered to healthy individuals along with measures of emotion awareness, state and trait anxiety, depression, and verbal intelligence. Participants had to decide how much the faces express six basic affects. Evaluative ratings and decision latencies were analyzed. Attention to feelings was negatively correlated with evaluative decision latency, whereas clarity of feelings was not related to decision latency in the PFE task. Attention to feelings was positively correlated with the perception of negative affects in ambiguous faces. Attention to feelings and emotional clarity were not related to gender decision latency. According to our results, dispositional attention to feelings goes along with an enhanced efficiency of facial affect perception. Habitually paying attention to one’s own emotions may facilitate processing of external emotional information. Preliminary evidence was obtained suggesting a relationship of dispositional attention to feelings with negative interpretations of facial expressions.

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The Influence of Key Facial Features on Recognition of Emotion in Cartoon Faces

Cited by 10 publications

References 75 publications

#Histagram: Investigating Emotions in Historical Representations on Instagram

#Histagram: Investigating Emotions in Historical Representations on Instagram

Lateral Habenula Responses During Eye Contact in a Reward Conditioning Task

The Relations of Attention to and Clarity of Feelings With Facial Affect Perception

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