Yujie Chen

Perceiving facial emotions in context: The intertwined roles of emotional valence and consciousness.

Emotion August 25, 2025 Yujie Chen, Yi Jiang, Ying Wang

Facial emotion perception in real life is inevitably influenced by the affective context, such as the expressions on nearby people's faces. However, to what extent and how the expressions of others exert a contextual influence on our interpretation of target facial emotions remains largely unclear. Using psychophysical methods, we demonstrated that the emotional facial context alone (i.e.,...