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  • Psychology
  • Cognitive Science
  • Social Neuroscience

Background:

  • Traditional theories propose facial expressions are primary for emotion perception.
  • Emerging evidence indicates visual context (body posture, scenes) significantly impacts facial emotion recognition.
  • The relative influence of faces versus context in emotion perception remains debated.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To quantitatively synthesize the influence of faces and visual context on emotion perception using meta-analysis.
  • To determine if facial expressions hold primacy over contextual cues in emotion labeling.
  • To investigate the moderating roles of emotional congruency and stimulus clarity.

Main Methods:

  • A meta-analysis was conducted on 1,020 effect sizes from 37 articles, involving 3,198 participants.
  • Three-level mixed-effects models with robust variance estimation were employed.
  • The analysis accounted for emotional congruency between faces and context, and the clarity of emotional signals.

Main Results:

  • Both faces and visual context exert large effects (g_av > 1.23) on emotion labeling.
  • Effects were amplified when faces and context conveyed incongruent emotions.
  • Stimulus clarity moderated the effects of congruent emotional signals.
  • After accounting for congruency and clarity, faces showed no greater influence than body postures or scenes.

Conclusions:

  • Emotion perception is an integrative process, with faces and context dynamically interacting.
  • The influence of different emotional signals is contingent on their clarity and congruency.
  • Future research should incorporate emotional congruency and signal clarity to understand emotion perception fully.