title: Interference among the Processing of Facial Emotion, Face Race, and Face Gender.
abstract: People can process multiple dimensions of facial properties simultaneously. Facial processing models are based on the processing of facial properties. The current study examined the processing of facial emotion, face race, and face gender using categorization tasks. The same set of Chinese, White and Black faces, each posing a neutral, happy or angry expression, was used in three experiments. Facial emotion interacted with face race in all the tasks. The interaction of face race and face gender was found in the race and gender categorization tasks, whereas the interaction of facial emotion and face gender was significant in the emotion and gender categorization tasks. These results provided evidence for a symmetric interaction between variant facial properties (emotion) and invariant facial properties (race and gender).
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Renmin University of China Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Yongna
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Department of Educational Psychology, Chinese University of Hong KongHong Kong, Hong Kong; Centre for Learning Sciences and Technologies, Chinese University of Hong KongHong Kong, Hong Kong.
authors.forename: Chi-Shing
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Tse
keywords: face perception; face processing; facial emotion; gender; race