Do You See What I See: Exploring the Role of Personality in Emotion Recognition using a Priming Paradigm

Pages: 334-338
Parama Gupta1, Deepshikha Ray2, and Sukanto Sarkar3 (Department of Psychology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal1,2 and Additional Professor of Psychiatry, AIIMS, Kalyani, West Bengal3)

The current study explored the mediating role of Neuroticism and Psychoticism involving young adult healthy participants who performed a facial emotion recognition task. There were 4 conditions of exposure to a facial expression prime with negative (anger, sad, fear) emotional valence or neutral valence; when the primes are either presented subliminally or supraliminally. A software SublimiX was used to generate subliminal stimuli and present the priming task. The facial expressions with relevant emotional valence were created using a software called FaceGen Modeller. General health Questionnaire was administered to screen psychiatric morbidity in the participants. Revised Eysenck Personality Questionnaire was administered to measure the Neuroticism and Psychoticism of participants. The results revealed (i) significant association between nature of supraliminal prime and response categories and (ii) neuroticism scores significantly predict the response categorization when prime is supraliminal and neutral. Findings were discussed in the light of the mediating role of personality traits in visual perception.