ABSTRACT

People tend to show the left cheek to broadly express emotions while they tend to show the right cheek to hide emotions because emotions were expressed more on the left than on the right side of the face. The present study investigated the level of awareness on the left- and right-cheek poses using the method of structural knowledge attributions. When asked to broadly express emotions for a family portrait, right-handed participants were more likely to show the left cheek than the right. On the other hand, when asked to conceal emotions to show a calm and reassuring attitude as a scientist, they were more likely to show the right cheek. After the posing session, participants selected the conscious level of their knowledge about posing from five categories: Random, intuition, familiarity, recollection, and rules. Most participants rated their knowledge as unconscious (i.e., either as random, intuition, or familiarity). The choice of the conscious level did not differ across posing orientations and posing instructions. These results suggest that although people do not have an acute awareness of their lateral posing preference, they reliably show one side of their faces to express or hide emotions.

摘要

人们倾向于露出左脸来广泛表达情绪，而他们倾向于露出右脸来隐藏情绪，因为情绪在脸部的左侧表达得比右侧更多。本研究使用结构知识归因的方法调查了对左右脸颊姿势的意识水平。当被要求为全家福广泛表达情感时，惯用右手的参与者比右撇子更有可能展示左脸颊。另一方面，当被要求隐藏情绪以表现出作为科学家的冷静和放心的态度时，他们更有可能表现出右脸。摆姿势会议结束后，参与者从五个类别中选择他们对摆姿势的知识的有意识水平：随机、直觉、熟悉、回忆和规则。大多数参与者认为他们的知识是无意识的（即随机的、直觉的或熟悉的）。有意识水平的选择在摆姿势方向和摆姿势指示方面没有差异。这些结果表明，尽管人们对自己的横向姿势偏好没有敏锐的认识，但他们可靠地展示了自己的一侧脸来表达或隐藏情绪。