Citation

Kosonogov V, Titova A. Int. J. Psychol. 2018; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Affiliation

Academy of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, International Union of Psychological Science, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/ijop.12512

PMID

30010190

Abstract

To study different aspects of facial emotion recognition, valid methods are needed. The more widespread methods have some limitations. We propose a more ecological method that consists of presenting dynamic faces and measuring verbal reaction times. We presented 120 video clips depicting a gradual change from a neutral expression to a basic emotion (anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness and surprise), and recorded hit rates and reaction times of verbal labelling of emotions. Our results showed that verbal responses to six basic emotions differed in hit rates and reaction times: happiness > surprise > disgust > anger > sadness > fear (this means these emotional responses were more accurate and faster). Generally, our data are in accordance with previous findings, but our differentiation of responses is better than the data from previous experiments on six basic emotions.

© 2018 International Union of Psychological Science.

Language: en

Keywords

Basic emotions; Emotion; Facial emotion recognition; Reaction times; Verbal reaction