Face and context integration in emotion inference is limited and variable across categories and individuals

© 2024. The Author(s)..

The ability to make nuanced inferences about other people's emotional states is central to social functioning. While emotion inferences can be sensitive to both facial movements and the situational context that they occur in, relatively little is understood about when these two sources of information are integrated across emotion categories and individuals. In a series of studies, we use one archival and five empirical datasets to demonstrate that people could be integrating, but that emotion inferences are just as well (and sometimes better) captured by knowledge of the situation alone, while isolated facial cues are insufficient. Further, people integrate facial cues more for categories for which they most frequently encounter facial expressions in everyday life (e.g., happiness). People are also moderately stable over time in their reliance on situational cues and integration of cues and those who reliably utilize situation cues more also have better situated emotion knowledge. These findings underscore the importance of studying variability in reliance on and integration of cues.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:15

Enthalten in:

Nature communications - 15(2024), 1 vom: 19. März, Seite 2443

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Goel, Srishti [VerfasserIn]
Jara-Ettinger, Julian [VerfasserIn]
Ong, Desmond C [VerfasserIn]
Gendron, Maria [VerfasserIn]

Links:

Volltext

Themen:

Journal Article

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 20.03.2024

Date Revised 21.03.2024

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1038/s41467-024-46670-5

funding:

Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM369891627