Explicit recognition of emotional facial expressions is shaped by expertise: evidence from professional actors

Frontiers in Psychology

Massimiliano Conson¹ 

关键词: facial expressions;    conscious recognition;    emotions;    expertise;    simulation;    mentalizing;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00382

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Can reading others' emotional states be shaped by expertise? We assessed processing of emotional facial expressions in professional actors trained either to voluntary activate mimicry to reproduce character's emotions (as foreseen by the “Mimic Method”), or to infer others' inner states from reading the emotional context (as foreseen by “Stanislavski Method”). In explicit recognition of facial expressions (Experiment 1), the two experimental groups differed from each other and from a control group with no acting experience: the Mimic group was more accurate, whereas the Stanislavski group was slower. Neither acting experience, instead, influenced implicit processing of emotional faces (Experiment 2). We argue that expertise can selectively influence explicit recognition of others' facial expressions, depending on the kind of “emotional expertise”.

【 授权许可】

CC BY