| Scope and method of study. The differences in differential and stereotype accuracy with categorical and dimensional judgments of emotional facial expressions among students in high people-oriented, low people-oriented, and mental health groups were investigated. The 90 subjects completed the NEO Five Factor Inventory, Interpersonal Relations Inventory, and the Symptom Checklist 90 - Revised following viewing and categorically identifying 8 videotaped emotional enactments in 3 male and 3 female stimulus faces. Each of the 48 videotaped emotional enactments were also scored for the emotion dimensions of dominance/submission, avoidance/approach, aroused/relaxed, and pain/pleasure. Cronbach's (1955) scoring procedure was used to derive differential accuracy (empathic accuracy) and stereotype accuracy scores.; Findings and conclusions. The results indicate that of the primary emotions investigated--elation, joy, satisfaction, resignation, grief, shock, fear, and anger--judges were more differentially accurate identifying elation in female enactments and anger in male enactments. Judges were also more differentially accurate identifying the dimensions of dominance/submission and arousal/relaxation in female enactments of elation and male enactments of anger. The low people-oriented group was better at categorically identifying emotions than the other two groups. Stereotype accuracy scores were not significantly greater than chance. Hierarchical multiple regression analysis results indicate that NEO-FFI personality factors and IRI empathy scale scores do not account for significant unique variance in differential accuracy. |
