ArticleCognition & emotion2019
A sad thumbs up: incongruent gestures and disrupted sensorimotor activity both slow processing of facial expressions.
Article in Cognition & emotion, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
- Children with facial differences experience deficits in emotion skills.Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · 2025Article
- Facial mimicry interference reduces working memory accuracy for facial emotion expressions.PloS one · 2024Article
- Incongruent gestures slow the processing of facial expressions in university students with social anxiety.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Wearing N95, Surgical, and Cloth Face Masks Compromises the Perception of Emotion.Affective science · 2022Article
- Effects of posed smiling on memory for happy and sad facial expressions.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- The Pacified Face: Early Embodiment Processes and the Use of Dummies.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Review
- Emotional Expressions Reconsidered: Challenges to Inferring Emotion From Human Facial Movements.Psychological science in the public interest : a journal of the American Psychological Society · 2019Review
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Abstract
Recognising a facial expression is more difficult when the expresser's body conveys incongruent affect. Existing research has documented such interference for universally recognisable bodily expressions. However, it remains unknown whether learned, conventional gestures can interfere with facial expression processing. Study 1 participants (
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