Study of cognitive tendencies in recognizing negative emotional faces

• DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.1674-6554.2011.02.022
• Publication Date: 2011-02-20
• Authors: Pingping Ma; Yifang Wang; Ping Wei
• Keywords: Sadness

Objective To study the cognitive tendencies in recognizing negative emotional faces.Methods The experiment used traditional flanker paradigm for reference.Forty-eight university students (19 males,29 females) finished tasks deigned by E-Prime, and their accuracy rate reaction time were recorded study.Results ANOVA revealed that,in all cases,the of anger was significant higher than fear sadness (96.60% ,94.50% ,94.40% ) (P＜0.05).And when flanking stimuli faces or there no stimuli, much shorter ( respectively,fear(801.27 ± 140.99) ms,anger(723.94 151.37 ms, sadness(812.21 148.85 ms; fear(788.17 ±148.81 694.28 111.99 (763.57 133.91 P ＜ 0.05 ).When faces, fear( respectively, 824.09 164.42) (721.48 124.06 760.50 131.12 798.95 146.40) (702.55 136.07 (750.48 133.86) 0.05).Conclusion There are effects different but superiority face recognition tendencies, which is helpful clinical diagnosis treatment some diseases associated with disorders.

Key words: Facial recognition; Fear; Anger; Sadness; Cognitive