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Cognitive Psychology
Social Psychology
Linguistics

Background:

Facial expressions are commonly believed to directly convey emotional states.
The process of interpreting facial cues into emotional information is rapid and often unconscious.
The role of the perceiver's internal knowledge, specifically emotion word knowledge, in this process is not fully understood.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate whether an individual's emotion word knowledge unconsciously influences the perception of facial emotions.
To determine if conceptual knowledge, accessed through language, shapes the visual encoding of emotional faces.

Main Methods:

Two experimental studies were conducted.
Perceptual priming with emotional faces (e.g., a scowling face) was used.
The accessibility of relevant emotion words (e.g., 'anger') was temporarily manipulated.

Main Results:

Perceptual priming of emotional faces was significantly disrupted when the accessibility of a related emotion word was reduced.
The same facial expression was encoded differently depending on whether a relevant emotion word was accessible or not.
This suggests that emotion concepts actively shape visual perception of faces.

Conclusions:

Emotion perception is not solely based on direct visual input but is influenced by the perceiver's conceptual knowledge.
Findings support a linguistically relative view of emotion perception, where language and concepts play a role in how emotions are seen.
This highlights the constructive nature of emotion perception, involving an interplay between sensory data and cognitive processes.