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Language and face in interactions: emotion perception, social meanings, and communicative intentions

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FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 14, Issue -, Pages -

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FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1146494

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emotion; emotive marker; facial expression; interlocutor relation; social meaning; communicative intention

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This study investigates the interaction between linguistic and facial expressions of emotions. The findings suggest that facial expressions play a more dominant role in emotion perception compared to emotive markers. Additionally, consistent and inconsistent combinations of emotive markers and facial expressions convey distinct social meanings and communicative intentions. Therefore, it is important to consider the context in which emotive markers occur in emotional expression.
IntroductionHuman emotions can be complex to interpret as they have multiple sources and are often times ambiguous, for example, when the signals sent by different channels of communication are inconsistent. Our study investigates the interaction of linguistic and facial expressions of emotions. MethodsIn two experiments, participants read short scenarios in German containing a direct utterance with positive or negative emotive markers, in combination with different facial expressions as still images of the speaker (i.e., the protagonist in the story). They answered questions about their perception regarding the intensity of the emotions (e.g., happiness, sadness), the properties of the expresser (e.g., honesty, warmth, likeability) and their relation to the addressee (e.g., closeness), as well as the expresser intention (e.g., irony, joke). ResultsThe findings suggest that facial expressions have a more dominant role in the emotion perception in comparison to emotive markers. Furthermore, consistent and inconsistent combinations of emotive markers and facial expressions convey distinct social meanings and communicative intentions. ConclusionThis research points to the importance to consider emotive markers in the emotional context that they occur in.

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