Multilateral studies of cognitive process of emotion

情绪认知过程的多边研究

基本信息

批准号：
13610100
负责人：
SUZUKI Naoto
金额：
$ 1.98万
依托单位：
Doshisha University
依托单位国家：
日本
项目类别：
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
财政年份：
2001
资助国家：
日本
起止时间：
2001 至 2003
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

We have demonstrated that the structure of emotional facial expression recognition can be represent as a circumplex in the two-dimensional psychological space, consisting of valence (pleasant-unpleasant) and the level of arousal. One of the purpose of this study was to confirm the results of our previous experiments, investigating whether or not the structure of emotion space would maintain in addition to facial expressions, emotional words and vocal expression recognition. This study also investigated at finding out what sequence recognition of each emotion. The results confirmed robustness of the two-dimensional structure of recognition of emotional expressions and words. The results also revealed that any emotional stimulus regardless of whether it is an facial and a vocal expressions or an emotional word is recognized heuristically and simply either as a positive emotion or some other emotion (including a negative one) at the early stage. This result suggested a poasibility that those other emotions including negative ones would be differentiated into more specific emotion later. It is also suggested another possibility that positive emotions might not be so clearly differentiated as negative ones, but instead remain undifferentiated. The nature of positive emotion showed a sharp contrast with that of negative ones. The results of this study may be considered to suggest a possibility that positive emotions and negative ones are working on qualitatively different systems. We think that these processes of differentiation of an emotional expression were reflected the evolutional process of the emotion.

我们已经证明，情绪面部表情识别的结构可以表示为二维心理空间中的循环体，由效价（愉快-不愉快）和唤醒水平组成。这项研究的目的之一是为了证实我们之前的实验结果，除了面部表情、情绪词和声音表情识别之外，还考察情绪空间的结构是否会保持。这项研究还调查了每种情绪的识别顺序。结果证实了情感表达和单词识别的二维结构的鲁棒性。结果还显示，任何情绪刺激，无论是面部表情、声音表达还是情绪词，都会在早期阶段被启发式地识别为积极情绪或其他情绪（包括消极情绪）。这一结果表明，包括负面情绪在内的其他情绪有可能稍后被分化为更具体的情绪。还提出了另一种可能性，即积极情绪可能不像消极情绪那样清晰地区分，而是保持未分化状态。积极情绪的性质与消极情绪的性质形成鲜明对比。这项研究的结果可能被认为表明积极情绪和消极情绪在性质不同的系统上发挥作用的可能性。我们认为情绪表达的这些分化过程反映了情绪的进化过程。