title: A differing bidirectional impact on the recognition accuracy of facial expression.
abstract: This study explored a bidirectional impact on the recognition accuracy of various facial expressions deriving from both the observer and sender in a sample of Chinese participants. A facial manipulation task was used to examine the ability of an observer's facial feedback to modulate the recognition of various facial expressions. Furthermore, the effect of a sender's facial expression with an open or closed mouth on recognition accuracy was investigated. The results showed that only recognition accuracy of a sad facial expression was influenced simultaneously by bidirectional sources from a sender and observer. Moreover, the impact of the unidirectional cue of a sender's facial feature (i.e., mouth openness) on happy and neutral faces was found to influence the recognition accuracy of these faces, but not the observer's bodily state. These findings indicate that the bidirectional impact derived from an observer and sender on facial expression recognition accuracy differs for emotional and neutral expressions.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Psychology, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, China.
authors.forename: Jingjing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Institute of Psychology, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, China.
authors.forename: Weijian
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Institute of Psychology, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, China.
authors.forename: Xinyu
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Institute of Psychology, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, China.
authors.forename: Ping
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Institute of Psychology, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, China.
authors.forename: Yuchi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Institute of Psychology, Zhejiang University, Hang Zhou, China.
authors.forename: Xiaoyu
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Jia
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: Yue
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, OK, USA.
authors.forename: Mickie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vanhoy
authors.affiliation: Institute of Psychology, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, China.
authors.forename: Binghai
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Sun
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D005149:Facial Expression; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Emotion; Facial expression; Facial feedback; Perceptual feature; Recognition