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标题：Facial-Expression Affective Attributes and their Configural Correlates: Components and Categories
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作者：David L. Bimler ; Galina V. Paramei
期刊名称：The Spanish Journal of Psychology
印刷版ISSN：1138-7416
电子版ISSN：1988-2904
出版年度：2006
卷号：9
期号：1
页码：19-31
语种：Spanish
出版社：Cambridge University Press
摘要：The present study investigates the perception of facial expressions of emotion, and explores the relation between the configural properties of expressions and their subjective attribution. Stimuli were a male and a female series of morphed facial expressions, interpolated between prototypes of seven emotions (happiness, sadness, fear, anger, surprise and disgust, and neutral) from Ekman and Friesen (1976). Topographical properties of the stimuli were quantified using the Facial Expression Measurement (FACEM) scheme. Perceived dissimilarities between the emotional expressions were elicited using a sorting procedure and processed with multidimensional scaling. Four dimensions were retained in the reconstructed facial-expression space, with positive and negative expressions opposed along D1, while the other three dimensions were interpreted as affective attributes distinguishing clusters of expressions categorized as “Surprise-Fear,” “Anger,” and “Disgust.” Significant relationships were found between these affective attributes and objective facial measures of the stimuli. The findings support a componential explanatory scheme for expression processing, wherein each component of a facial stimulus conveys an affective value separable from its context, rather than a categorical-gestalt scheme. The findings further suggest that configural information is closely involved in the decoding of affective attributes of facial expressions. Configural measures are also suggested as a common ground for dimensional as well as categorical perception of emotional faces.
关键词：Facial expression;Emotion;Facial configuration;Affective dimensions
其他关键词：Expresión facial;Emoción;Configuración facial;Dimensiones afectivas