ArticleFrontiers in psychology2018
Effects of Face and Background Color on Facial Expression Perception.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Do we feel colours? A systematic review of 128 years of psychological research linking colours and emotions.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025Pooled it
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- Dynamic versus static facial color changes: Evidence for terminal color dominance in expression recognition.Journal of vision · 2025Article
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- Facial expressions affect the memory of facial colors.Journal of vision · 2024Article
- Padova Emotional Dataset of Facial Expressions (PEDFE): A unique dataset of genuine and posed emotional facial expressions.Behavior research methods · 2023Article
- Red background color biases gender categorization of human faces.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Red biases sex categorization of human bodies.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- The shared signal hypothesis: Facial and bodily expressions of emotion mutually inform one another.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2022Article
- Feeling Blue and Getting Red: An Exploratory Study on the Effect of Color in the Processing of Emotion Information.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Red Backgrounds Enhance Dominance in Human Faces and Shapes.Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behaviorArticle
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Abstract
Detecting others' emotional states from their faces is an essential component of successful social interaction. However, the ability to perceive emotional expressions is reported to be modulated by a number of factors. We have previously found that facial color modulates the judgment of facial expression, while another study has shown that background color plays a modulatory role. Therefore, in this study, we directly compared the effects of face and background color on facial expression judgment within a single experiment. Fear-to-anger morphed faces were presented in face and background color conditions. Our results showed that judgments of facial expressions was influenced by both face and background color. However, facial color effects were significantly greater than background color effects, although the color saturation of faces was lower compared to background colors. These results suggest that facial color is intimately related to the judgment of facial expression, over and above the influence of simple color.
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