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Self-monitoring hinders the ability to read affective facial expressions.
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Visual Cognition . Aug2023, Vol. 31 Issue 7, p520-532. 13p. - Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- People frequently regulate their own behaviour in an effort to be socially appropriate. Here we ask how self-monitoring influences our accuracy when reading others' facial expressions. We used webcams and pre-programmed conversations to induce self-monitoring or other-monitoring in participants, before they classified the affective facial expressions of video-recorded actors. Two experiments showed that self-monitoring reduces sensitivity to affective facial expression in others. Experiment 1 showed that self-monitoring participants were less sensitive to emotional facial expressions than other-monitoring and neutral condition participants. Experiment 2 found the same result, but only in participants who rated the pre-programmed conversations as high in believability. We discuss possible mechanisms by which this may occur, including the role of social stress, divided attention, and automatic latent imitation when processing others' facial expressions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *EXPERIMENTAL design
*STATISTICAL power analysis
*SOCIAL perception
*ANALYSIS of variance
*CONFIDENCE intervals
*CONFIDENCE
*SELF-control
*CONVERSATION
*SELF-evaluation
*FACIAL expression
*FACE perception
*ATTENTION
*INTERPERSONAL relations
*QUESTIONNAIRES
*DESCRIPTIVE statistics
*ANALYSIS of covariance
*RESEARCH funding
*RECEIVER operating characteristic curves
*VIDEO recording
*PSYCHOLOGICAL stress
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13506285
- Volume :
- 31
- Issue :
- 7
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Visual Cognition
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 175847587
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2024.2315788