Abstract
Zusammenfassung: Bei der Fähigkeit, Emotionen in Gesichtern zu erkennen, handelt es sich um eine angeborene und kulturübergreifende Leistung, die eine wesentliche evolutionäre sowie soziale Bedeutung hat. Über das Gedächtnis für emotionale Gesichter ist dagegen weniger bekannt. Aus diesem Grund wurden 278 Probanden mittels neu entwickeltem Emotionserkennungsverfahren (VERT 160) und emotionalem Gesichtergedächtnisverfahren (VIEMER) untersucht, um Einflussfaktoren wie Geschlecht und Alter auf die emotionale Diskriminationsfähigkeit und das emotionale Gedächtnis zu analysieren. Die Ergebnisse lassen keinen signifikanten Geschlechtereffekt erkennen. Das Alter zeigt einen hoch signifikanten Einfluss zugunsten der jüngeren Teilnehmer. Freude wurde am besten erkannt und Personen, die zuvor mit freudigem Gesicht zu sehen waren, auch besser wiedererkannt. Zusammenfassend unterstreichen die Ergebnisse die Notwendigkeit, soziodemografische Einflussvariablen auf emotionale Prozesse zu beachten.
Abstract: Recognising emotions in facial expressions is a congenital and cross-cultural ability with immense social relevance. Compared to emotion recognition, little is known about the memory for emotional faces. To survey possible influencing factors, such as gender or age, 278 persons participated in an investigation using the recently developed emotion recognition (VERT 160) and memory for emotional faces tasks (VIEMER). The analysis of the data shows no significant gender effects. There is, however, a significant influence of age, to the extent that younger people show better performance. Happiness is the best recognised emotion and posers showing happy faces are also best remembered. In summary, the presented results support the necessity to analysing the impact of sociodemographic variables on emotional processes.
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