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KMID : 0981220160160020103
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Congnitive Behavior Therapy in Korea
2016 Volume.16 No. 2 p.103 ~ p.121
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Facial Emotion Recognition and Social Anxiety in Homosexuals
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Yang Jae-Won
Yim Min-Kyung
Yang Eun-Joo
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Abstract
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This study was designed to investigate the levels of social anxiety in lesbians and gay men and their relationship with facial emotion recognition compared to heterosexuals. To measure their facial emotion recognition, we used Yang and Oh(2009)’s experiment paradigm. In their experiment, happy, sad, angry, and fearful emotional faces with diverse emotional intensities were created by using morphing technique. In ascending trials, facial emotion stimuli were presented from neutral to more intensive ones. The reverse sequence was used in descending trials. The participants were asked to respond when they noticed a presence of a certain emotion in ascending trials and a disappearance of an emotion in descending trials. Additionally, they judged which emotion they recognized. Results indicated that the level of social anxiety was higher in lesbians and gay men than in heterosexuals. In particular, gay men recognized sadness, anger, and happiness with lower sensitivity compared to heterosexual men. Moreover, the levels of social anxiety of gay men were positively correlated with the accuracy of recognition of angry facial emotion. On the contrary, social anxiety symptoms were negatively correlated with the sensitivity to happy facial emotion in lesbians. The implications of this study were discussed.
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KEYWORD
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homosexuals, facial emotion recognition, social anxiety
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