“You Should Have Seen the Look on Your Face…”: Self-awareness of Facial Expressions

Frontiers in Psychology

Hui Zhang²  Fangbing Qu³  Xiaolan Fu³  Yu-Hsin Chen⁴  Wen-Jing Yan⁴  Kaiyun Li⁵ 

[1] College of Preschool Education, Capital Normal UniversityBeijing, China;Department of Biostatistics, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, MemphisTN, United States;Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing, China;Institute of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Wenzhou UniversityWenzhou, China;School of Education and Psychology, University of JinanJinan, China;State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing, China;

关键词: self-awareness;    facial expression;    awareness rate;    duration;    intensity;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00832

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The awareness of facial expressions allows one to better understand, predict, and regulate his/her states to adapt to different social situations. The present research investigated individuals’ awareness of their own facial expressions and the influence of the duration and intensity of expressions in two self-reference modalities, a real-time condition and a video-review condition. The participants were instructed to respond as soon as they became aware of any facial movements. The results revealed that awareness rates were 57.79% in the real-time condition and 75.92% in the video-review condition. The awareness rate was influenced by the intensity and (or) the duration. The intensity thresholds for individuals to become aware of their own facial expressions were calculated using logistic regression models. The results of Generalized Estimating Equations (GEE) revealed that video-review awareness was a significant predictor of real-time awareness. These findings extend understandings of human facial expression self-awareness in two modalities.

【 授权许可】

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