SLOW FACIAL SIGNS AND THEIR PSYCHODIAGNOSTIC VALUE
Keywords:
facial expression, slow facial signs, emotional traits, anxiety, depressiveness, aggressiveness, happiness
Abstract
The current study is devoted to the identifiation of the scientifi basis of permanent facial expression as a psychodiagnotic measure. The aim of the research is to investigate relationships between slow facial signs (SFS) and emotional personality traits with taking into account age and gender on the sample of
Eastern Ukrainians (201 participants). To that end, we measured participants’ personality traits levels and photographed their neutral faces in order to identify any SFS on the photographs of their faces. The test battery included the Spielberger state-trait anxiety inventory, Taylor manifest anxiety scale, Buss Durkey hostility inventory, Vasserman social frustration questionnaire, Vasserman neuroticism scale, Personal differential inventory, “Draw-A-Person” and “Draw-A-Person-In-The-Rain” projective tests. We applied Facial Action Coding System (Ekman, Friesen, & Hager) to identify and interprete SFS on the photographs. We found that the most part of revealed SFS relates to anger (12) and sadness (11). The fewest number of revealed SFS
relates to disgust / contempt (5), fear (4) and happiness (4). The elder a person becomes the more increasing number of SFS of sadness (highest rates), anger (lower rates), fear (still lower) and happiness (lowest rates) is expected in one’s face. There are no signifiant differences in manifesting SFS between men and women. We found signifiant correlations between relevant SFS and traits anxiety, depression, and agressiveness (in its
guilt and resentment aspects).
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Ellgring, H. (1989). Facial expression as a behavioral indicator of emotional states. Pharmacopsychiatry, 22 (Suppl 1), 23-28.
Goetz, S. M. M., Shattuck, K. S., Miller, R. M., Campbell, J. A., Lozoya, E., Weisfeld, G. E., & Carré, J. M. (2013). Social status moderates the relationship between facial structure and aggression. Psychological Science, 24(11), 2329-2334.
Harrigan, J., Wilson, K, & Rosenthal, R. (2004). Detecting State and Trait Anxiety from Auditory and Visual Cues: A Meta-Analysis. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30(1), 56-66.
Hehman, E., Flake, J. K., & Freeman, J. B. (2015). Static and dynamic facial cues differentially affect the consistency of social evaluations. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41(8), 1123-1134.
Horstmann, G. (2002). Facial expressions of emotion: Does the prototypes represent central tendency, frequency of instantiation, or an ideal? Emotion, 2(3), 297-305.
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Kramer, R. S. S., King, J. E., & Ward, R. (2011). Identifying personality from the static, nonexpressive face in humans and chimpanzees: evidence of a shared system for signaling personality. Evolution and Human Behavior, 32, 179–185.
Kupriyanov, V. V., & Stovichek, G. V. (1988). Litso cheloveka: Anatomiya, mimika [Human face: Anatomy, facial expression]. Moscow: Medicine.
Lange, F. (1952). Die Sprache des menschlichen Antlitzes: eine wissenschaftliche Physiognomik und ihre praktische Verwertung im Leben und in der Kunst. Müchen: J. F. Lehmanns Verlag.
Levenson, R. W. (1992). Autonomic nervous system differences among emotions. Psychological Science, 3(1), 23-27.
Little, A. C., Jones, B. C., DeBruine, L. M., & Dunbar, R. I. M. (2013). Accuracy in discrimination of self-reported cooperators using static facial information. Personality and Individual Differences, 54, 507–512.
Malatesta, C. Z., Fiore, M. J., & Messina, J. J. (1987). Affect, personality, and facial expressive characteristics of older people. Psychology and Aging, 2, 64-69.
Mufson, M. J. (2008). Coping with anxiety and phobias. Harvard Health Publications.
Olivola, C. Y., & Todorov, A. (2010). Fooled by fist impressions? Reexamining the diagnostic value of appearance-based inferences. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46(2), 315-324.
Oosterhof, N. N., & Todorov, A. (2008). The functional basis of face evaluation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 105, 11087–11092.
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Penton-Voak, I. S., Pound, N., Little, A. C., & Perrett, D. I. (2006). Personality judgments from natural and composite facial images: More evidence for a “kernel of truth” in social perception. Social Cognition, 24(5), 607–640.
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Romanov, K., Varjonen, J., Kaprio, J., & Koskenvuo, M. (2003). Life events and depressiveness – the effect of adjustment for psychosocial factors, somatic health and genetic liability. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 107(1), 25-33.
Said, C. P., Haxby, J. V., & Todorov, A. (2011). Brain systems for assessing the affective value of faces. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences, 366(1571), 1660-1670.
Scott, N. J., Kramer, R. S. S., Jones, A. L., & Ward, R. (2013). Facial cues to depressive symptoms and
their associated personality attributions. Psychiatry Research, 208, 47–53.
Stirrat, M., & Perrett, D. I. (2010). Valid facial cues to cooperation and trust: Male facial width and trustworthiness. Psychological Science, 21(3), 349-354.
Wong, E. M., Ormiston, M. E., & Haselhuhn, M. P. (2011). A face only an investor could love: CEOs’ facial structure predicts their fims’ fiancial performance. Psychological Science, 22(12), 1478-1483.
Wu, Z., & Fang, Y. (2014). Comorbidity of depressive and anxiety disorders: challenges in diagnosis and assessment. Shanghai Archives of Psychiatry, 26 (4), 227-231.
Zajonc, R. B. (1985). Emotion and facial efference: A theory reclaimed. Science, 228, 15–21.
Zebrowitz, L. A. (2017). First Impressions From Faces. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 26(3) 237–242.
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Біда, С. О., & Луценко, О. Л. (2019). SLOW FACIAL SIGNS AND THEIR PSYCHODIAGNOSTIC VALUE. Visnyk of V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Series Psychology, (65), 46-53. Retrieved from https://periodicals.karazin.ua/psychology/article/view/12240
