Facial expressions depicting compassionate and critical emotions: the development and validation of a new emotional face stimulus set
Journal article
Authors | McEwan, Kirsten, Gilbert, Paul, Dandeneau, Stephane, Lipka, Sigrid, Maratos, Frances A., Paterson, Kevin B. and Baldwin, Mark |
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Abstract | Attachment with altruistic others requires the ability to appropriately process affiliative and kind facial cues. Yet there is no stimulus set available to investigate such processes. Here, we developed a stimulus set depicting compassionate and critical facial expressions, and validated its effectiveness using well-established visual-probe methodology. In Study 1, 62 participants rated photographs of actors displaying compassionate/kind and critical faces on strength of emotion type. This produced a new stimulus set based on N = 31 actors, whose facial expressions were reliably distinguished as compassionate, critical and neutral. In Study 2, 70 participants completed a visual-probe task measuring attentional orientation to critical and compassionate/kind faces. This revealed that participants lower in self-criticism demonstrated enhanced attention to compassionate/kind faces whereas those higher in self-criticism showed no bias. To sum, the new stimulus set produced interpretable findings using visual-probe methodology and is the first to include higher order, complex positive affect displays. |
Keywords | Attentional bias; Compassion; Self-criticism; Facial expression |
Year | 2014 |
Journal | PLos ONE |
Publisher | Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
ISSN | 1932-6203 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0088783 |
Web address (URL) | http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0088783 |
http://hdl.handle.net/10545/313344 | |
hdl:10545/313344 | |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | 19 Feb 2014 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 25 Feb 2014 |
Rights | Archived with thanks to PLoS ONE |
Contributors | University of Derby |
File | File Access Level Open |
File | File Access Level Open |
https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/93v92/facial-expressions-depicting-compassionate-and-critical-emotions-the-development-and-validation-of-a-new-emotional-face-stimulus-set
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