ICPS

2023 International Convention of Psychological Science · 2023

Recognition and Visual Processing of in-Group Vs out-Group Emotional Facial Expressions

Brussels, Belgium · March 2023

poster · Personality/Emotion

  • Yong-Qi Cong
    University of Amsterdam
  • Agneta Fischer
    University of Amsterdam
  • Disa Sauter
    University of Amsterdam

Abstract

In an emotion recognition task, Dutch participants viewed posed and spontaneous emotional facial expressions by ingroup (i.e., Dutch) and out-group (i.e., Chinese) individuals while their eye movements were recorded. We found an in-group advantage in emotion recognition performance and discuss how visual processing strategies relate to this phenomenon.

Emotion