The role of facial response in the experience of emotion

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7434801
AutoresRoger Tourangeau (Yale University), Phoebe C Ellsworth (0000-0002-8973-4232, Yale University)
Año1979
Volumen37
Número9
Páginas1519-1531
Fecha de publicación1979-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315
EditorialAmerican Psychological Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1037//0022-3514.37.9.1519
PMID501520
OpenAlexW1991697485
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas75
Referencias citadas11

Facial expression and emotional stimuli were varied orthogonally in a 3 X 4 factorial design in order to test whether facial expression is necessary or sufficient to influence emotional experience.Subjects watched a film eliciting fear, sadness, or no emotion, while holding their facial muscles in the position characteristic of fear or sadness, or in an effortful but nonemotional grimace; those in a fourth group received no facial instructions.The subjects believed that the study concerned subliminal perception and that the facial positions were necessary to prevent physiological recording artifacts.The films had powerful effects on reported emotions, the facial expressions none.Correlations between facial expression and reported emotion were zero.Sad and fearful subjects showed distinctive patterns of physiological arousal.Facial expression also tended to affect physiological responses in a manner consistent with an effort hypothesis

Affect (linguistics · Anger · Arousal · Cognitive psychology · Developmental psychology · Emotion Perception · Emotional expression · Expression (computer science · Face perception · Facial expression · Perception · Sadness · Subliminal stimuli · Communication · Emotional Intelligence and Performance · Emotions and Moral Behavior · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior · Face Recognition and Perception · Neuroscience · Psychology · Social Psychology