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Bodily action penetrates affective perception.

Carlo Fantoni1, Sara Rigutti1, Walter Gerbino1

  • 1Department of Life Sciences, Psychology Unit "Gaetano Kanizsa," University of Trieste , Trieste , Italy.

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|February 20, 2016
PubMed
Summary
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Bodily actions influence our perception of emotions. Comfortable actions enhance happiness detection, while uncomfortable actions improve anger detection, demonstrating a top-down effect on affective perception.

Keywords:
ActionAdaptationEmbodiedEmotionFace perceptionInductionMoodMotorPenetrabilityPerception

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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Affective Science
  • Embodied Cognition

Background:

  • Subtle postural shifts during reaching influence hedonic impact and emotional experience.
  • Previous research (Fantoni & Gerbino, 2014) suggested mood congruency effects in facial emotion identification after motor actions.
  • Skeptics questioned whether these effects represented genuine perceptual modulation or post-perceptual biases.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether action-induced mood states genuinely modulate affective perception.
  • To differentiate between perceptual sensitivity changes and response bias shifts.
  • To provide evidence for top-down influence of bodily actions on emotion perception.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized the Motor Action Mood Induction Procedure (MAMIP) involving comfortable and uncomfortable reaches.
  • Employed a facial emotion detection task (not identification) following motor actions.
  • Measured detection thresholds for happiness and anger under different action conditions (comfortable, uncomfortable, inaction).

Main Results:

  • Lowered detection threshold for happiness after comfortable reaches compared to uncomfortable reaches.
  • Lowered detection threshold for anger after uncomfortable reaches compared to comfortable reaches.
  • Demonstrated mood-congruent sensitivity improvements in detecting subtle facial emotions without significant response bias shifts.

Conclusions:

  • Observer's internal states induced by bodily actions can modulate affective perception.
  • Evidence supports a genuine top-down effect, showing facial emotion perception is penetrable by action-induced mood.
  • Affective priming by action valence is a plausible mechanism for this top-down influence on subjective experience.