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  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Inferring complex emotions is crucial for attributing humanness.
  • Limited research exists on the perceptual link between complex emotion inference and judging humanness.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between perceptual deficits in complex emotion judgment and dehumanization.
  • To determine if face inversion affects both complex emotion decoding and humanness judgments.

Main Methods:

  • Three experiments were conducted using face inversion to disrupt low-level perceptual face processing.
  • Participants judged complex emotions from eyes and evaluated the humanness of faces/eye regions.

Main Results:

  • Face inversion impaired the decoding of complex emotions from eyes.
  • Face inversion led to more dehumanized evaluations of eye regions and faces.
  • The degree of impairment in emotion decoding correlated positively with the degree of dehumanization.

Conclusions:

  • Shared perceptual mechanisms underlie the processing of complex emotions and judgments of humanness.
  • Efficient face processing is essential for both accurate emotion recognition and avoiding dehumanization.
  • Findings suggest a common perceptual basis linking sensitivity to complex emotions and dehumanization.