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Relationships between perceptual defence reactions and subjective tendencies in the phenomenal representation of facial displays of affect.

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Author

  • Hans Bengtsson

Summary, in Swedish

Examined if nonveridical reports of a stimulus-motif presented below the threshold for correct recognition were related to subjective tendencies in the ordinary perception of thermatically related stimuli. 64 college students were tested with the standard picture of the Defense Mechanism Test that reflects a theme of aggression and threat. Stimulus-inadequate reports of the picture-motif were related to the Ss' phenomenal representations of video-recorded facial displays of anger, fear, sadness, and joy. Results demonstrate a correspondence between the individual's perceptual distortions, eliminations, or additions to the threatening subliminal stimulus and his or her phenomenal representation of the supraliminal affective stimuli

Publishing year

1991

Language

English

Pages

38-47

Publication/Series

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology

Volume

32

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Topic

  • Psychology

Keywords

  • Social cognition
  • perceptual defence
  • affective displays
  • Subliminal perception

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1467-9450