%0 Journal Article
%T Explicit recognition of emotional facial expressions is shaped by expertise: evidence from professional actors
%A Massimiliano Conson
%A Marta Ponari
%A Marco Sar¨¤
%A Dario Grossi
%A Luigi Trojano
%J Frontiers in Psychology
%D 2013
%I Frontiers Media
%R 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00382
%X Can reading others' emotional states be shaped by expertise? We assessed processing of emotional facial expressions in professional actors trained either to voluntary activate mimicry to reproduce character's emotions (as foreseen by the ˇ°Mimic Methodˇ±), or to infer others' inner states from reading the emotional context (as foreseen by ˇ°Stanislavski Methodˇ±). In explicit recognition of facial expressions (Experiment 1), the two experimental groups differed from each other and from a control group with no acting experience: the Mimic group was more accurate, whereas the Stanislavski group was slower. Neither acting experience, instead, influenced implicit processing of emotional faces (Experiment 2). We argue that expertise can selectively influence explicit recognition of others' facial expressions, depending on the kind of ˇ°emotional expertiseˇ±.
%K facial expressions
%K conscious recognition
%K emotions
%K expertise
%K simulation
%K mentalizing
%U http://www.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00382/abstract