Robust anger: recognition of deteriorated dynamic bodily emotion expressions.
In two studies, the robustness of anger recognition of bodily expressions is tested. In the first study, video recordings of an actor expressing four distinct emotions (anger, despair, fear, and joy) were structurally manipulated as to image impairment and body segmentation. The results show that anger recognition is more robust than other emotions to image impairment and to body segmentation. Moreover, the study showed that arms expressing anger were more robustly recognised than arms expressing other emotions. Study 2 added face blurring as a variable to the bodily expressions and showed that it decreased accurate emotion recognition-but more for recognition of joy and despair than for anger and fear. In sum, the paper indicates the robustness of anger recognition in multileveled deteriorated bodily expressions.
['Visch|Valentijn T|VT|', 'Goudbeek|Martijn B|MB|', 'Mortillaro|Marcello|M|']
D000293:Adolescent D000328:Adult D000786:Anger D019260:Expressed Emotion D005149:Facial Expression D005260:Female D006801:Humans D008297:Male D009633:Nonverbal Communication D010775:Photic Stimulation D021641:Recognition, Psychology D055815:Young Adult
Anger Bodily expression Image impairment Body segmentation Emotion recognition accuracy