Abstract
Emotion expressions convey valuable information about others’ internal states and likely behaviours. Accurately identifying expressions is critical for social interactions, but so is perceiver confidence when decoding expressions. Even if a perceiver correctly labels an expression, uncertainty may impair appropriate behavioural responses and create uncomfortable interactions. Past research has found that perceivers report greater confidence when identifying emotions displayed by cultural ingroup members, an effect attributed to greater perceptual skill and familiarity with own-culture than other-culture faces. However, the current research presents novel evidence for an ingroup advantage in emotion decoding confidence across arbitrary group boundaries that hold culture constant. In two experiments using different stimulus sets participants not only labeled minimal ingroup expressions more accurately, but did so with greater confidence. These results offer novel evidence that ingroup advantages in emotion decoding confidence stem partly from social-cognitive processes.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 192-199 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Cognition and Emotion |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2 Jan 2018 |
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Keywords
- Ingroup advantage
- confidence
- emotion expressions
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A minimal ingroup advantage in emotion identification confidence. / Young, Steven G.; Wilson, John Paul.
In: Cognition and Emotion, Vol. 32, No. 1, 02.01.2018, p. 192-199.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
TY - JOUR
T1 - A minimal ingroup advantage in emotion identification confidence
AU - Young, Steven G.
AU - Wilson, John Paul
PY - 2018/1/2
Y1 - 2018/1/2
N2 - Emotion expressions convey valuable information about others’ internal states and likely behaviours. Accurately identifying expressions is critical for social interactions, but so is perceiver confidence when decoding expressions. Even if a perceiver correctly labels an expression, uncertainty may impair appropriate behavioural responses and create uncomfortable interactions. Past research has found that perceivers report greater confidence when identifying emotions displayed by cultural ingroup members, an effect attributed to greater perceptual skill and familiarity with own-culture than other-culture faces. However, the current research presents novel evidence for an ingroup advantage in emotion decoding confidence across arbitrary group boundaries that hold culture constant. In two experiments using different stimulus sets participants not only labeled minimal ingroup expressions more accurately, but did so with greater confidence. These results offer novel evidence that ingroup advantages in emotion decoding confidence stem partly from social-cognitive processes.
AB - Emotion expressions convey valuable information about others’ internal states and likely behaviours. Accurately identifying expressions is critical for social interactions, but so is perceiver confidence when decoding expressions. Even if a perceiver correctly labels an expression, uncertainty may impair appropriate behavioural responses and create uncomfortable interactions. Past research has found that perceivers report greater confidence when identifying emotions displayed by cultural ingroup members, an effect attributed to greater perceptual skill and familiarity with own-culture than other-culture faces. However, the current research presents novel evidence for an ingroup advantage in emotion decoding confidence across arbitrary group boundaries that hold culture constant. In two experiments using different stimulus sets participants not only labeled minimal ingroup expressions more accurately, but did so with greater confidence. These results offer novel evidence that ingroup advantages in emotion decoding confidence stem partly from social-cognitive processes.
KW - Ingroup advantage
KW - confidence
KW - emotion expressions
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U2 - 10.1080/02699931.2016.1273199
DO - 10.1080/02699931.2016.1273199
M3 - Article
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VL - 32
SP - 192
EP - 199
JO - Cognition and Emotion
JF - Cognition and Emotion
SN - 0269-9931
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