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SUBMITTER: Betz N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6620159 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Betz Nicole N Hoemann Katie K Barrett Lisa Feldman LF
Emotion (Washington, D.C.) 20190110 8
Accumulating evidence indicates that context has an important impact on inferring emotion in facial configurations. In this paper, we report on three studies examining whether words referring to mental states contribute to mental inference in images from the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (Study 1), Baron-Cohen et al. (2001) in static emoji (Study 2), and in animated emoji (Study 3). Across all three studies, we predicted and found that perceivers were more likely to infer mental states when ...[more]