Face-to-face : Perceived personal relevance amplifies face processing

Bublatzky, Florian; Pittig, Andre; Schupp, Harald T.; Alpers, Georg W.

Face-to-face : Perceived personal relevance amplifies face processing

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2017

Authors

Bublatzky, Florian

Pittig, Andre

Schupp, Harald T.

Alpers, Georg W.

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Journal article

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Published

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Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience ; 12 (2017), 5. - pp. 811-822. - ISSN 1749-5016. - eISSN 1749-5024

Abstract

The human face conveys emotional and social information, but it is not well understood how these two aspects influence face perception. In order to model a group situation, two faces displaying happy, neutral or angry expressions were presented. Importantly, faces were either facing the observer, or they were presented in profile view directed towards, or looking away from each other. In Experiment 1 (n = 64), face pairs were rated regarding perceived relevance, wish-to-interact, and displayed interactivity, as well as valence and arousal. All variables revealed main effects of facial expression (emotional > neutral), face orientation (facing observer > towards > away) and interactions showed that evaluation of emotional faces strongly varies with their orientation. Experiment 2 (n = 33) examined the temporal dynamics of perceptual-attentional processing of these face constellations with event-related potentials. Processing of emotional and neutral faces differed significantly in N170 amplitudes, early posterior negativity (EPN), and sustained positive potentials. Importantly, selective emotional face processing varied as a function of face orientation, indicating early emotion-specific (N170, EPN) and late threat-specific effects (LPP, sustained positivity). Taken together, perceived personal relevance to the observer-conveyed by facial expression and face direction-amplifies emotional face processing within triadic group situations.

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150 Psychology

Keywords

Emotion, Facial Expression, Face Orientation, Personal Relevance, Social Interaction, EEG / ERP

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BUBLATZKY, Florian, Andre PITTIG, Harald T. SCHUPP, Georg W. ALPERS, 2017. Face-to-face : Perceived personal relevance amplifies face processing. In: Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 12(5), pp. 811-822. ISSN 1749-5016. eISSN 1749-5024. Available under: doi: 10.1093/scan/nsx001

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@article{Bublatzky2017-05-01Facet-39319,
  year={2017},
  doi={10.1093/scan/nsx001},
  title={Face-to-face : Perceived personal relevance amplifies face processing},
  number={5},
  volume={12},
  issn={1749-5016},
  journal={Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience},
  pages={811--822},
  author={Bublatzky, Florian and Pittig, Andre and Schupp, Harald T. and Alpers, Georg W.}
}

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