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Through the Eyes of the Beholder: Simulated Eye-Movement Experience (“SEE”) Modulates Valence Bias in Response to Emotional Ambiguity Emotion © 2018 American Psychological Association 2018, Vol. 18, No. 8, 1122–1127 1528-3542/18/$12.00 http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/emo0000421 BRIEF REPORT Through the Eyes of the Beholder: Simulated Eye-Movement Experience (“SEE”) Modulates Valence Bias in Response to Emotional Ambiguity Maital Neta and Michael D. Dodd University of Nebraska—Lincoln Although some facial expressions provide clear information about people’s emotions and intentions (happy, angry), others (surprise) are ambiguous because they can signal both positive (e.g., surprise party) and negative outcomes (e.g., witnessing an accident). Without a clarifying context, surprise is interpreted as positive by some and negative by others, and this valence bias is stable across time. When compared to fearful expressions, which are consistently rated as negative, surprise and fear share similar morphological features (e.g., widened eyes) primarily in the upper part of the face. Recently, we demonstrated that the valence bias was associated with a specific pattern of eye movements (positive bias associated with faster fixation to the lower part of the face). In this follow-up, we identified two participants from our previous study who had the most positive and most negative valence bias. We used their eye movements to create a moving window such that new participants viewed faces through the eyes of one our previous participants (subjects saw only the areas of the face that were directly fixated by the original participants in the exact order they were fixated; i.e., Simulated Eye-movement Experience). The input provided by these windows modulated the valence ratings of surprise, but not fear faces. These findings suggest there are meaningful individual differences in how people process faces, and that these differences impact our emotional perceptions. Furthermore, this study is unique in its approach to examining individual differences in emotion by creating a new methodology adapted from those used primarily in the vision/attention domain. Keywords: emotion, ambiguity, individual differences, gaze, simulated eye-movement experience Extant research has demonstrated that, in contrast to clearly individuals with a positive bias attended faster to the mouth (a valenced emotional expressions (e.g., angry, happy)—which are feature that distinguishes surprise from fear) than those with a rated consistently across participants—there are individual differ- negative bias (Neta, Tong, Rosen et al., 2017). To the extent that ences in valence ratings of surprised faces (Neta, Kelley, & this pattern of eye movements is important for valence bias, we Whalen, 2013; Neta, Norris, & Whalen, 2009; Neta & Tong, would predict that we could use the perceptual input from the most 2016). This valence bias—an individual’s tendency to rate surprise positive and most negative participants to manipulate surprise as positive or negative—is consistent across time (Neta et al., ratings in new participants. 2009), and related to stable traits (Neta & Brock, 2017). By using Previous research has used a variety of techniques for constrain- images that emphasize high (HSFs) or low spatial frequencies ing visual processing. For example, some work has used a “bub- (LSFs), we previously examined automatic versus controlled re- bles” method to vary the perceptual information available from sponses to surprise (Neta & Whalen, 2010). More recently, we face stimuli by revealing only small and specific parts of the face demonstrated that the valence bias is associated with a specific (e.g., one eye; Gosselin & Schyns, 2001). This method has been This document is copyrighted by the American Psychological Association or one of its alliedpattern publishers. of eye movements when viewing LSFs and HSFs of useful in demonstrating that individuals with autism show abnor- This article is intended solely for the personal use ofsurprised the individual user and is not to be disseminated broadly. and fearful faces, such that, for LSFs (faster processing), mal processing of facial information, including less fixation spec- ificity to the eyes and mouth and a greater tendency to look away from the eyes (Spezio, Adolphs, Hurley, & Piven, 2007). Other work has used the gaze-contingent window in which participants’ This article was published Online First February 1, 2018. eye movements are tracked while they view a stimulus and they Maital Neta and Michael D. Dodd, Department of Psychology, Univer- are only able to see the locations they are directly fixating via a sity of Nebraska—Lincoln. window that moves in real time to each new location they fixate We thank Jordan Marshall and Dan Henley for help with data collection (the rest of the image is obscured; Figure 1). This technique is and entry. We also thank Dan Henley for valuable input on a previous commonly applied to studies of reading (Rayner, 2014) but has version of this article. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Maital also been applied in other contexts in which experimenters want to Neta, Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, B84 ensure that individuals can only attend to information that is being East Stadium, Center for Brain, Biology, and Behavior, Lincoln, NE directly fixated (e.g., McDonnell, Mills, McCuller, & Dodd, 68588. E-mail: [email protected] 2015). This is particularly important given that individuals can 1122 SIMULATED EYE-MOVEMENTS MODULATE VALENCE BIAS 1123 Figure 1. (A) An example of the perceptual input received by the participants via the moving window. Two windows were created from the eye movements of two previous participants who deemed surprise the most positive (SEE Pos) or the most negative (SEE Neg), with window type manipulated between subjects. The window moved smoothly and continuously in real time with the same timing parameters and fixation locations of our previous participants such that images could be viewed through the eyes of another individual. (B) A significant Expression ϫ SEE Group ϫ Valence Bias interaction revealed that the SEE Neg group rated surprise more negatively than the SEE Pos group, specifically in the individuals with a positive valence bias (Spos group: p ϭ .006), but not those with a negative valence bias (Sneg group: p ϭ .781). Errors bars denote standard errors. attend to areas that they are not directly fixating (Posner, 1980). Importantly, much of the previous findings have focused on Some work has used this method to demonstrate that simultaneous examining universal effects of face processing or group-level availability of the information from the entire face is crucial for differences (e.g., autism; Spezio et al., 2007). More recent work efficient (holistic) face recognition (Maw & Pomplun, 2004; used modification training and adaptation effects to shift biases in Simion & Shimojo, 2006; Van Belle, De Graef, Verfaillie, Ros- emotion recognition, such that individuals perceived more happi- sion, & Lefèvre, 2010), that there are cross-cultural universals in ness than anger in ambiguous expressions (happy-angry morphs; face processing (Caldara, Zhou, & Miellet, 2010), and even re- Penton-Voak et al., 2013). However, the current study is unique in stored fixation to the eyes in a patient with amygdala damage its approach to examining individual differences in emotion pro- (Kennedy & Adolphs, 2010). Still other research has used moving cessing of intact facial expressions with greater ecological validity windows, for example, where a mouse (held by the participant) (i.e., not morphed across two incongruent expressions). Moreover, controls the perceptual input rather than the participant’s gaze. while there have been a variety of methods that constrain percep- This method, originally developed to study reading (McConkie & tual input (bubbles, gaze contingent, and moving windows), this Rayner, 1975) and visual search (Gilchrist, North, & Hood, 2001), study is unique in creating a moving window that is entirely based is thought to provide a more natural viewing experience than the on the eye movements of another individual, allowing these par- gaze-contingent window (Dalrymple, Birmingham, Bischof, Bar- ticipants to view the faces “through their eyes.” ton, & Kingstone, 2011). Again, in the context of face processing, The participants in Neta, Tong, Rosen et al. (2017) viewed the this method has been used to study development of emotion same surprised and fearful faces (in the same order as our present recognition (Birmingham et al., 2013). Generally, however, either participants) and were required to indicate whether they perceived the moving window is under the control of the participant (e.g., This document is copyrighted by the American Psychological Association or one of its allied publishers. each expression as positive or negative while their eye movements gaze-contingent window) or the window is designed to move from This article is intended solely for the personal use of the individual user and is not to be disseminated broadly. location to location in a systematic fashion (e.g., to determine the were tracked. In the present study, we took the eye movement data speed with which information can be processed). In the present of the individual who evaluated surprise the most positively and study, we created a moving window that was based on the actual the individual who evaluated surprise the most negatively in the eye movements of previous participants (i.e., Simulated Eye- Neta, Tong, Rosen et al. (2017) study and used their real-time movement Experience;
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