이모티콘과 얼굴 자극에 대한 행동 반응 및 성별의 차이

Face and Emoticon: Behavioral Difference and Gender Effect

본 연구 결과는 첫째, 화남/공포스러움 감정은 다른 감정에 비해 이모티콘과 얼굴 조건 모두에서 전달력이 떨어지며,둘째, 이모티콘은 얼굴에 비해 긍정적, 부정적, 중립적 감정을 전달하는데 불리하고, 셋째, 얼굴 정보에 대한 여성의 빠 른 감정 파악 능력은 문자화된 이모티콘을 사용하는 환경에서는 관찰되지 않는다는 점을 시사한다. 앞으로 얼굴, 단어, 이모티콘 등 감정 전달 수단에 따른 행동 반응 연구의 차이에대한 후속 연구가 필요하다. 본 연구 결과는 몇몇 제한점에도불구하고 인간의 시각적 감정 정보의 처리를 이해하는 데 도움이 되었으며, 향후 감정과 관련된 질병의 기전을 이해하는데 이바지 할 수 있을 것이다

Objective Emoticon as well as face is a tool for the communication of emotion. However, little is known about behavioral response to emoticon, unlike face. To explore the characteristics of behavioral response of emoticon and face, we measured both response time and accuracy in healthy young subjects. Methods The 29 subjects were asked to respond to emoticons or faces which contained one among happy, sad, angry/fearful or neutral emotion. Using univariate analysis of variance, behavioral responses were analyzed for three main effects of stimulation (face, emoticon), emotion (happy, sad, angry/fearful, neutral), gender (male, female) and also their interactions. Results The response to face was faster and more accurate than that to emoticon. Female’s response to face, not to emoticon, was faster than male. A common finding of face and emoticon stimuli was that their responses were slower and less accurate in angry/fearful condition than in the rest emotional ones. There was not any interaction among three factors. The different finding was that neutral condition was less informative in only emoticon, not in face, condition. Conclusion Our results demonstrated emoticon is different from face in terms of the characteristics in the transfer ability of emotion and in gender effect.