Unconscious Facial Reactions to Emotional Facial Expressions

By U. Dimberg, M. Thunberg, Kurt Elmehed. Psychology Science, 2000

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Emotional contagion in organizational life (2018, background): “…is that recipients of emotional contagion report not recognizing that this emotional social influence is occurring, or that it is subsequently influencing their emotions and behaviors (Barsade, 1994; Dimberg & Thunberg, 1998; Dimberg et al., 2000; Neumann & Strack, 2000; Wild, Erb & Bartels, 2001).”
Presidential speechmaking style: Emotional response to micro-expressions of facial affect (2009, background): “Studies presenting facial expressions below the threshold of conscious awareness demonstrate that facial displays of emotions such as anger, fear and happiness, impact an individual’s emotional response without their awareness (Channouf 2000; Dimburg et al. 2000; Esteves et al. 1994; Marsh and Amb”
Facial reactions to emotional stimuli: Automatically controlled emotional responses (2002, result): “…that unconsciously presented facial stimuli are sufficiently effective to trigger different facial reactions, and perhaps these results may be taken as support for the proposition that facial reactions are automatically mediated by positive and negative affect programmes (Dimberg et al., 2000).”
Analysis of Neurophysiological Reactions to Advertising Stimuli by Means of EEG and Galvanic Skin Response Measures (2009, neutral): “, 1986; Dimberg, 1986; Dimberg, Hansson, & Thunberg, 1998;Lang, Greenwald, Bradley, & Hamm, 1993), subliminal priming (de Groot, 1996; Dimberg et al., 2000; Rotteveel, de Groot, Geutskens, & Phaf, 2001), sounds (Bradley & Lang, 2000; Dimberg, 1990), words (Hietanen, Surakka, & Linnankoski, 1998), an”
Mirror Neuron and Theory of Mind Mechanisms Involved in Face-to-Face Interactions: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Approach to Empathy (2007, background): “Further evidence for such a mechanism comes from electromyographic studies of covert facial muscle activity during the passive viewing of emotional faces ( Dimberg, Thunberg, & Elmehed, 2000; Dimberg & Thunberg, 1998).”
Neural bases of the non-conscious perception of emotional signals (2010, background): “and induce spontaneous facial muscle activity that reflects the emotion conveyed by the stimulu”
Traces of Terror: Subliminal Death Primes and Facial Electromyographic Indices of Affect (2001, background): “Thus, for example, in Dimberg et al. (2000) , participants viewed angry, neutral, or happy faces under subliminal priming conditions.”
The influence of social groups on goal contagion (2008, neutral): “We copy the facial expressions ( Dimberg, Thunberg, & Elmehed, 2000 ), nonverbal mannerisms (Chartrand & Bargh, 1999), and pupil size (Harrison, Singer, Rotshtein, Dolan, & Critchley, 2006) of others.”
Complaint and solution-oriented circles: Interaction patterns in work group discussions (2009, background): “These effects even occur when participants are unaware that their facial expressions are related to specific emotions (Larsen, Kasimatis, & Frey, 1992 ; Strack, Martin, & Stepper, 1988 ) and when facial expressions are perceived below conscious awareness (Dimberg, Thunberg, & Elmehed, 2000 ).”
Neural mechanisms of autonomic, affective, and cognitive integration (2005, background): “In parallel, a motor/mimicry argument (e.g., Dimberg et al., 2000) suggests that the automatic induction by emotive stimuli of somatomotor responses, such as emotional facial expressions, generates feedback information (from facial muscles) to enhance subjective emotion feelings and even to permit…”
How do we perceive the pain of others? A window into the neural processes involved in empathy (2005, background): “For instance, viewing facial expressions triggers expressions on one’s own face (as measured by electromyography), even in the absence of conscious recognition of the stimulus (Dimberg et al., 2000; Wallbott, 1991).”