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2020-03-23Zeitschriftenartikel DOI: 10.18452/23702
Affective states influence emotion perception: evidence for emotional egocentricity
dc.contributor.authorTrilla, Irene
dc.contributor.authorWeigand, Anne
dc.contributor.authorDziobek, Isabel
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-24T15:21:19Z
dc.date.available2021-11-24T15:21:19Z
dc.date.issued2020-03-23none
dc.identifier.urihttp://edoc.hu-berlin.de/18452/24364
dc.description.abstractResearch in social cognition has shown that our own emotional experiences are an important source of information to understand what other people are feeling. The current study investigated whether individuals project their own affective states when reading other’s emotional expressions. We used brief autobiographical recall and audiovisual stimuli to induce happy, neutral and sad transient states. After each emotion induction, participants made emotion judgments about ambiguous faces displaying a mixture of happiness and sadness. Using an adaptive psychophysics procedure, we estimated the tendency to perceive the faces as happy under each of the induced affective states. Results demonstrate the occurrence of egocentric projections, such that faces were more likely judged as happy when participants reported being happy as compared to when they were sad. Moreover, the degree of emotional egocentricity was associated with individual differences in perspective-taking, with smaller biases being observed in individuals with higher disposition to take the perspective of others. Our findings extend previous literature on emotional egocentricity by showing that self-projection occurs when we make emotion attributions based on the other’s emotional expressions, and supports the notion that perspective-taking tendencies play a role in the ability to understand the other’s affective states.eng
dc.language.isoengnone
dc.publisherHumboldt-Universität zu Berlin
dc.rights(CC BY 4.0) Attribution 4.0 Internationalger
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject.ddc150 Psychologienone
dc.titleAffective states influence emotion perception: evidence for emotional egocentricitynone
dc.typearticle
dc.identifier.urnurn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/24364-7
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18452/23702
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionnone
local.edoc.pages11none
local.edoc.type-nameZeitschriftenartikel
local.edoc.container-typeperiodical
local.edoc.container-type-nameZeitschrift
dc.description.versionPeer Reviewednone
dc.identifier.eissn1430-2772
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi10.1007/s00426-020-01314-3
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitlePsychological researchnone
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume85none
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.issue3none
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublishernameSpringernone
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublisherplaceBerlin, Heidelbergnone
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pagestart1005none
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pageend1015none
bua.departmentLebenswissenschaftliche Fakultätnone

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