Abstract. Emotion perception studies typically explore how judgments of facial expressions are influenced by invariant characteristics such as sex or by variant characteristics such as gaze. However, few studies have considered the importance of factors that are not easily categorized as invariant or variant. We investigated one such factor, attractiveness, and the role it plays in judgments of emotional expression. We asked 26 participants to categorize different facial expressions (happy, neutral, and angry) that varied with respect to facial attractiveness (attractive, unattractive). Participants were significantly faster when judging expressions on attractive as compared to unattractive faces, but there was no interaction between facial attractiveness and facial expression, suggesting that the attractiveness of a face does not play an important role in the judgment of happy or angry facial expressions.

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面部吸引力对面部表情识别的影响

摘要。情绪感知研究通常探索面部表情的判断如何受到性别等不变特征或凝视等变体特征的影响。然而，很少有研究考虑到不容易归类为不变或变异的因素的重要性。我们调查了一个这样的因素，吸引力，以及它在情绪表达判断中的作用。我们要求 26 名参与者对不同的面部表情（快乐、中立和愤怒）进行分类，这些表情因面部吸引力（有吸引力、不有吸引力）而异。与不吸引人的面孔相比，参与者在判断有吸引力的面部表情时明显更快，但面部吸引力和面部表情之间没有相互作用，