The face of future: Face expressions during future thinking

El Haj, Mohamad; Altintas, Emin; Moustafa, Ahmed A; Boudoukha, Abdel Halim

Document type :

Article dans une revue scientifique

DOI :

10.1177/1747021821992991

PMID :

33535922

Permalink :

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12210/74548

Title :

The face of future: Face expressions during future thinking

Author(s) :

El Haj, Mohamad [Auteur]
Laboratoire de Psychologie des Pays de la Loire [LPPL]
Altintas, Emin [Auteur]

Psychologie : Interactions, Temps, Émotions, Cognition (PSITEC) - ULR 4072
Moustafa, Ahmed A [Auteur]
Western Sydney University
Boudoukha, Abdel Halim [Auteur]
Western Sydney University

Journal title :

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Abbreviated title :

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volume number :

Pages :

p.1360-1367

Publisher :

SAGE Publications

Publication date :

2021-02-03

English keyword(s) :

Emotions
facial expressions
future thinking

English abstract : [en]

Future thinking, which is the ability to project oneself forward in time to pre-experience an event, is intimately associated with emotions. We investigated whether emotional future thinking can activate emotional facial ...
Show more >Future thinking, which is the ability to project oneself forward in time to pre-experience an event, is intimately associated with emotions. We investigated whether emotional future thinking can activate emotional facial expressions. We invited 43 participants to imagine future scenarios, cued by the words “happy,” “sad,” and “city.” Future thinking was video recorded and analysed with a facial analysis software to classify whether facial expressions (i.e., happy, sad, angry, surprised, scared, disgusted, and neutral facial expression) of participants were neutral or emotional. Analysis demonstrated higher levels of happy facial expressions during future thinking cued by the word “happy” than “sad” or “city.” In contrast, higher levels of sad facial expressions were observed during future thinking cued by the word “sad” than “happy” or “city.” Higher levels of neutral facial expressions were observed during future thinking cued by the word “city” than “happy” or “sad.” In the three conditions, the neutral facial expressions were high compared with happy and sad facial expressions. Together, emotional future thinking, at least for future scenarios cued by “happy” and “sad,” seems to trigger the corresponding facial expression. Our study provides an original physiological window into the subjective emotional experience during future thinking.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Administrative institution(s) :

Université de Lille

Collections :

Psychologie : Interactions, Temps, Émotions, Cognition (PSITEC) - ULR 4072

Research team(s) :

(D)REC

Submission date :

2022-05-26T15:06:24Z
2022-06-01T16:52:41Z

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