What “Tears” Remind Us of: An Investigation of Embodied Cognition and Schizotypal Personality Trait Using Pencil and Teardrop Glasses

Facial expressions influence our experience and perception of emotions-they not only tell other people what we are feeling but also might tell us what to feel sensory feedback. We conducted three experiments to investigate the interaction between facial feedback phenomena and different environmental...

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Published inFrontiers in psychology Vol. 10; p. 2826
Main Authors Liang, Yu, Shimokawa, Kazuma, Yoshida, Shigeo, Sugimori, Eriko
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland Frontiers Media S.A 10.01.2020
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congruence hypothesis
embodied cognition
facial feedback
Psychology
schizotypal personality trait
schizotypy
sense of agency/ownership
sense of agency/ownership
embodied cognition
congruence hypothesis
schizotypy
teardrop glasses
facial feedback
schizotypal personality trait
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Summary:Facial expressions influence our experience and perception of emotions-they not only tell other people what we are feeling but also might tell us what to feel sensory feedback. We conducted three experiments to investigate the interaction between facial feedback phenomena and different environmental stimuli, by asking participants to remember emotional autobiographical memories. Moreover, we examined how people with schizotypal traits would be affected by their experience of emotional facial simulations. We found that using a directed approach (gripping a pencil with teeth/lips) while remembering a specific autobiographical memory could successfully evoke participants' positive (e.g., happy and excited)/negative (e.g., angry and sad) emotions (i.e., Experiment 1). When using indirective environmental stimuli (e.g., teardrop glasses), the results of our experiments (i.e., Experiments 2 and 3) investigating facial feedback and the effect of teardrop glasses showed that participants who scored low in schizotypy reported little effect from wearing teardrop glasses, while those with high schizotypy reported a much greater effect in both between- and within-subject conditions. The results are discussed from the perspective of sense of ownership, which people with schizophrenia are believed to have deficits in.
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This article was submitted to Cognition, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology
Edited by: Claudia Gianelli, University Institute of Higher Studies in Pavia, Italy
Reviewed by: Francesco Foroni, Australian Catholic University, Australia; Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos, University of South Australia, Australia
ISSN:1664-1078
1664-1078
DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02826