Interpreting Foreign SmilesLanguage Context and Type of Scale in the Assessment of Perceived Happiness and Sadness

  1. Candice Frances 1
  2. Silvia Pueyo 2
  3. Vanessa Anaya 2
  4. Jon Andoni Duñabeitia 3
  1. 1 Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language
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    Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language

    San Sebastián, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01a28zg77

  2. 2 Universidad Europea del Atlántico
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    Universidad Europea del Atlántico

    Santander, España

  3. 3 Universidad Nebrija
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    Universidad Nebrija

    Madrid, España

    ROR https://ror.org/03tzyrt94

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Revista:
Psicológica: Revista de metodología y psicología experimental

ISSN: 1576-8597

Año de publicación: 2020

Volumen: 41

Número: 1

Páginas: 21-38

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.2478/PSICOLJ-2020-0002 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

Otras publicaciones en: Psicológica: Revista de metodología y psicología experimental

Resumen

The current study focuses on how different scales with varying demands can affect our subjective assessments. We carried out 2 experiments in which we asked participants to rate how happy or sad morphed images of faces looked. The two extremes were the original happy and original sad faces with 4 morphs in between. We manipulated language of the task—namely, half of the participants carried it out in their native language, Spanish, and the other half in their foreign language, English—and type of scale. Within type of scale, we compared verbal and brightness scales. We found that, while language did not have an effect on the assessment, type of scale did. The brightness scale led to overall higher ratings, i.e., assessing all faces as somewhat happier. This provides a limitation on the foreign language effect, as well as evidence for the influence of the cognitive demands of a scale on emotionality assessments.

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This research has been partially funded by grants PGC2018-097145-B-I00 (from the Agencia Estatal de Investigaci?n) and SEV-2015-0490 from the Spanish Government. CF is supported by a MINECO predoctoral grant from Spanish government (BED-2016-077169).

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