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How Facial Expressions of Emotion Affect Distance Perception

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Psychology, November 2015
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Title
How Facial Expressions of Emotion Affect Distance Perception
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Frontiers in Psychology, November 2015
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01825
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Nam-Gyoon Kim, Heejung Son

Abstract

Facial expressions of emotion are thought to convey expressers' behavioral intentions, thus priming observers' approach and avoidance tendencies appropriately. The present study examined whether detecting expressions of behavioral intent influences perceivers' estimation of the expresser's distance from them. Eighteen undergraduates (nine male and nine female) participated in the study. Six facial expressions were chosen on the basis of degree of threat-anger, hate (threatening expressions), shame, surprise (neutral expressions), pleasure, and joy (safe expressions). Each facial expression was presented on a tablet PC held by an assistant covered by a black drape who stood 1, 2, or 3 m away from participants. Participants performed a visual matching task to report the perceived distance. Results showed that facial expression influenced distance estimation, with faces exhibiting threatening or safe expressions judged closer than those showing neutral expressions. Females' judgments were more likely to be influenced; but these influences largely disappeared beyond the 2 m distance. These results suggest that facial expressions of emotion (particularly threatening or safe emotions) influence others' (especially females') distance estimations but only within close proximity.

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Country Count As %
Hungary 1 3%
United States 1 3%
Unknown 34 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 19%
Student > Master 5 14%
Student > Bachelor 5 14%
Researcher 4 11%
Other 2 6%
Other 3 8%
Unknown 10 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 14 39%
Neuroscience 4 11%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 6%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1 3%
Other 3 8%
Unknown 10 28%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 January 2021.
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#6,903,857
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Outputs from Frontiers in Psychology
#9,931
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#108,154
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Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Psychology
#174
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