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The topic of the present research is the influence of categorization on perceptual memory for facial expression.
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Background The topic of the present research is the influence of categorization on perceptual memory for facial expression. When people talk about others' emotional expressions, they may use specific emotion categories, such as sad, happy and angry. However, categorization is affected by a number of factors, and this in turn leads to different perceptions of the same facial expression. Different perceptions of the same facial expression further motivate and justify different types of behaviour. Therefore, the present research tried to investigate how emotion concepts affect perceptual memory for emotional expressions. There was only one previous study which has directly tested contextual effects in the perception of facial expressions of emotion (Woll and Martinez 1982, as cited in Halberstadt and Niedenthal, 2001). It was found that people erred in recognizing facial expressions in the direction of the incorrect labels. However, these errors only happened for facial expressions from the pleasant and middle range...
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