A function of facial mimicry in emotional communication
| Project/Area Number |
24730639
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Experimental psychology
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| Research Institution | National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (2014)
Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (2012-2013) |
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Principal Investigator |
FUJIMURA Tomomi 独立行政法人産業技術総合研究所, ヒューマンライフテクノロジー研究部門, 研究員 (90623992)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2014)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,210,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥510,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
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| Keywords | 感情 / 表情 / コミュニケーション / 顔面筋電図 / 表情模倣 / 表情模倣（オランダ） / 表情認識（米国） |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study was aimed to reveal psychological basis of emotional communication by focusing unconscious facial reactions to others’ facial expressions of emotion. One of the experiments investigated how trustworthiness of others influence facial reactions. The results showed that corrugator activities (i.e., frown) in response to sad faces displayed by untrustworthy others were more inhibited than those displayed by trustworthy others. This result suggest that people inhibit facial expressions congruent with sad faces displayed by a untrustworthy person because showing empathy to sad emotion incurs high social cost.
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