Trial reportPloS one2016
Do Dynamic Compared to Static Facial Expressions of Happiness and Anger Reveal Enhanced Facial Mimicry?
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32 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Influence of child and adult faces with face masks on emotion perception and facial mimicry.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Effects of positive and negative social feedback on motivation, evaluative learning, and socio-emotional processing.NPJ science of learning · 2023Article
- Facial mimicry and metacognitive judgments in emotion recognition are distinctly modulated by social anxiety and autistic traits.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Visual perception of emotion cues in dogs: a critical review of methodologies.Animal cognition · 2023Review
- What is missing in the study of emotion expression?Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
- Feelings first? Sex differences in affective and cognitive processes in emotion recognition.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2022Article
- Empathy for pain in individuals with autistic traits during observation of static and dynamic stimuli.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- An examination of autonomic and facial responses to prototypical facial emotion expressions in psychopathy.PloS one · 2022Article
- Light makeup decreases receivers' negative emotional experience.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Association of masseter muscles thickness and facial morphology with facial expressions in children.Clinical and experimental dental research · 2021Article
- Levels of naturalism in social neuroscience research.iScience · 2021Review
- Creation and validation of the Picture-Set of Young Children's Affective Facial Expressions (PSYCAFE).PloS one · 2021Article
- Alexithymia and Facial Mimicry in Response to Infant and Adult Affect-Expressive Faces.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Right Temporoparietal Junction Modulates In-Group Bias in Facial Emotional Mimicry: A tDCS Study.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2020Article
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- Electromyographic evidence of reduced emotion mimicry in individuals with a history of non-suicidal self-injury.PloS one · 2020Article
- Widespread and lateralized social brain activity for processing dynamic facial expressions.Human brain mapping · 2019Article
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Abstract
Facial mimicry is the spontaneous response to others' facial expressions by mirroring or matching the interaction partner. Recent evidence suggested that mimicry may not be only an automatic reaction but could be dependent on many factors, including social context, type of task in which the participant is engaged, or stimulus properties (dynamic vs static presentation). In the present study, we investigated the impact of dynamic facial expression and sex differences on facial mimicry and judgment of emotional intensity. Electromyography recordings were recorded from the corrugator supercilii, zygomaticus major, and orbicularis oculi muscles during passive observation of static and dynamic images of happiness and anger. The ratings of the emotional intensity of facial expressions were also analysed. As predicted, dynamic expressions were rated as more intense than static ones. Compared to static images, dynamic displays of happiness also evoked stronger activity in the zygomaticus major and orbicularis oculi, suggesting that subjects experienced positive emotion. No muscles showed mimicry activity in response to angry faces. Moreover, we found that women exhibited greater zygomaticus major muscle activity in response to dynamic happiness stimuli than static stimuli. Our data support the hypothesis that people mimic positive emotions and confirm the importance of dynamic stimuli in some emotional processing.
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