Suboptimal facial expression primes in textual media messages: Evidence for the affective congruency effect

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Highlights:

• Suboptimal joyful primes increased positive emotions only for positive messages.

• Angry facial primes tended to increase trust in negative news messages.

• In general, the presence of primes decreased perceived trustworthiness.

• Joyful primes elicited better recall of messages than angry or neutral primes.

• Periocular muscle activity was higher for positive compared to negative messages.

摘要

•Suboptimal joyful primes increased positive emotions only for positive messages.•Angry facial primes tended to increase trust in negative news messages.•In general, the presence of primes decreased perceived trustworthiness.•Joyful primes elicited better recall of messages than angry or neutral primes.•Periocular muscle activity was higher for positive compared to negative messages.

论文关键词:Suboptimal affective priming,Digital media,Mobile devices,Emotions,Facial expressions

论文评审过程:Available online 23 August 2014.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.07.050