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Influence of facial expressions, gaze direction, and social anxiety on memory of unfamiliar faces

Research Project

Project/Area Number 25885100
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research Field Experimental psychology
Research InstitutionDoshisha University

Principal Investigator

KIKUTANI Mariko  同志社大学, 心理学部, 助教 (60707412)

Project Period (FY) 2013-08-30 – 2015-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2014)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Keywords顔認知 / 表情 / 視線 / 社会不安 / 認知心理学
Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research investigated memory of unfamiliar faces and how it is influenced by facial expression, direction of gaze, and observers’ level of social anxiety (SA). 86 participants were initially asked to view and memorize images of faces displaying either happy or angry expressions with direct or averted gaze. In the subsequent recognition phase, those previously shown faces and additional distractor faces were displayed with neutral expressions, and participants judged if they had seen them before. Participants were divided into high or low SA groups. Regardless of gaze, recognition for faces studied with angry expressions was significantly less accurate than for those studied with happy expressions, and this tendency was present only for individuals with higher levels of SA. The finding suggests that those individuals experienced elevated vigilance for threatening features of angry expressions, which may have disrupted their processing of identity-relevant features of the faces.

Report

(3 results)
  • 2014 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2013 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (2 results)

All 2015 2014

All Presentation (2 results)

  • [Presentation] Influence of facial expressions and social anxiety on memory of unfamiliar faces2015

    • Author(s)
      Mariko Kikutani
    • Organizer
      1st International Convention of Psychological Science
    • Place of Presentation
      アムステルダム、オランダ
    • Year and Date
      2015-03-12 – 2015-03-14
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] In-group advantage in emotion recognition: Evidence from categorical perception of facial expressions2014

    • Author(s)
      Mariko Kikutani
    • Organizer
      1st World Congress on Facial Expression of Emotion
    • Place of Presentation
      ポルト、ポルトガル
    • Year and Date
      2014-10-09 – 2014-10-11
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2013-09-12   Modified: 2019-07-29  

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