Interpreting Foreign Smiles: Language Context and Type of Scale in the Assessment of Perceived Happiness and Sadness

Candice Frances; Silvia Pueyo Villa; Vanessa Anaya Moix; Jon Andoni Duñabeitia

Interpreting Foreign Smiles: Language Context and Type of Scale in the Assessment of Perceived Happiness and Sadness

Candice Frances ^[1] ; Silvia Pueyo ^[2] ; Vanessa Anaya ^[2] ; Jon Andoni Duñabeitia ^[3]
1. [1] Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language
  
  Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language
  
  San Sebastián, España
2. [2] Universidad Europea del Atlántico
  
  Universidad Europea del Atlántico
  
  Santander, España
3. [3] Universidad Nebrija
  
  Universidad Nebrija
  
  Madrid, España
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Localización: Psicológica: Revista de metodología y psicología experimental, ISSN-e 1576-8597, ISSN 0211-2159, Vol. 41, Nº 1, 2020, págs. 21-38
Idioma: inglés
DOI: 10.2478/psicolj-2020-0002
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- The current study focuses on how different scales with varying demands can affect our subjective assessments. We carried out 2 experiments in which we asked participants to rate how happy or sad morphed images of faces looked. The two extremes were the original happy and original sad faces with 4 morphs in between. We manipulated language of the task—namely, half of the participants carried it out in their native language, Spanish, and the other half in their foreign language, English—and type of scale. Within type of scale, we compared verbal and brightness scales. We found that, while language did not have an effect on the assessment, type of scale did. The brightness scale led to overall higher ratings, i.e., assessing all faces as somewhat happier. This provides a limitation on the foreign language effect, as well as evidence for the influence of the cognitive demands of a scale on emotionality assessments.
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