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  • Social Psychology
  • Cognitive Science

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  • Emotion recognition from facial cues is crucial for social interaction.
  • Facial appearance evaluations impact social behavior, but their effect on specific emotion recognition is unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how facial appearance-based trustworthiness influences the recognition of basic emotions.
  • To test the hypothesis that first impressions from facial appearance affect emotion recognition accuracy and speed.

Main Methods:

  • 150 participants completed a dynamic emotion recognition task.
  • A within-subjects design exposed participants to faces varying in trustworthiness (trustworthy, neutral, untrustworthy) displaying basic emotions (happiness, anger, fear, sadness).
  • Measured emotion recognition accuracy and speed.

Main Results:

  • Untrustworthy-looking faces significantly decreased emotion recognition accuracy and speed across all emotion types.
  • Trustworthy-looking faces enhanced the speed of recognizing fear and sadness.
  • Facial appearance-based inferences can interfere with accurate and rapid emotion recognition.

Conclusions:

  • First impressions based on facial appearance can significantly impact the ability to recognize basic emotions.
  • Trustworthiness judgments derived from facial cues can modulate emotion recognition, particularly for emotions signaling distress.
  • These findings highlight the complex interplay between social perception and emotional processing.