Deliberate control over facial expressions in motherhood. Evidence from a Stroop-like task.

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serval:BIB_1303B1F2824C
Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Titre
Deliberate control over facial expressions in motherhood. Evidence from a Stroop-like task.
Périodique
Acta psychologica
Auteur⸱e⸱s
Recio G., Surdzhiyska Y., Bagherzadeh-Azbari S., Hilpert P., Rostami H.N., Xu Q., Sommer W.
ISSN
1873-6297 (Electronic)
ISSN-L
0001-6918
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
08/2022
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
228
Pages
103652
Langue
anglais
Notes
Publication types: Journal Article
Publication Status: ppublish
Résumé
The deliberate control of facial expressions is an important ability in human interactions, in particular for mothers with prelinguistic infants. Because research on this topic is still scarce, we investigated the control over facial expressions in a Stroop-like paradigm. Mothers of 2-6 months old infants and nullipara women produced smiles and frowns in response to verbal commands written on distractor faces of adults or infants showing expressions of happiness or anger/distress. Analyses of video recordings with a machine classifier for facial expression revealed pronounced effects of congruency between the expressions required by the participants and those displayed by the face stimuli on the onset latencies of the deliberate facial expressions. With adult distractor faces this Stroop effect was similar whether participants smiled or frowned. With infant distractor faces mothers and non-mothers showed indistinguishable Stroop effects on smile responses; however, for frown responses, the Stroop effect in mothers was smaller than in non-mothers. We suggest that for frown responses in mothers when facing infants, the effect of mimicry or stimulus response compatibility, leading to the Stroop effect, is offset by a caregiving response or empathy.
Mots-clé
Adult, Anger/physiology, Emotions/physiology, Facial Expression, Female, Happiness, Humans, Infant, Stroop Test, Caretaking, Deliberate control, Facial expression, Infant faces, Motherhood
Pubmed
Web of science
Open Access
Oui
Création de la notice
04/10/2022 11:18
Dernière modification de la notice
08/10/2022 6:08
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