@misc{Blum2021,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Blum, Franziska},
  title     = {I see you smile, you must be happy! Social-emotional gains and usability evaluation of the new training tool E.V.A.: A pilot study},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-50550},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-505509},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {XIX, 80},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {Emotions are a complex concept and they are present in our everyday life. Persons on the autism spectrum are said to have difficulties in social interactions, showing deficits in emotion recognition in comparison to neurotypically developed persons. But social-emotional skills are believed to be positively augmented by training. A new adaptive social cognition training tool "E.V.A." is introduced which teaches emotion recognition from face, voice and body language. One cross-sectional and one longitudinal study with adult neurotypical and autistic participants were conducted. The aim of the cross-sectional study was to characterize the two groups and see if differences in their social-emotional skills exist. The longitudinal study, on the other hand, aimed for detecting possible training effects following training with the new training tool. In addition, in both studies usability assessments were conducted to investigate the perceived usability of the new tool for neurotypical as well as autistic participants. Differences were found between autistic and neurotypical participants in their social-emotional and emotion recognition abilities. Training effects for neurotypical participants in an emotion recognition task were found after two weeks of home training. Similar perceived usability was found for the neurotypical and autistic participants. The current findings suggest that persons with ASC do not have a general deficit in emotion recognition, but are in need for more time to correctly recognize emotions. In addition, findings suggest that training emotion recognition abilities is possible. Further studies are needed to verify if the training effects found for neurotypical participants also manifest in a larger ASC sample.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{PahnkeMauMoellerJungeetal.2019,
  author    = {Pahnke, Rike and Mau-M{\"o}ller, Anett and Junge, Martin and Wendt, Julia and Weymar, Mathias and Hamm, Alfons O. and Lischke, Alexander},
  title     = {Oral Contraceptives Impair Complex Emotion Recognition in Healthy Women},
  series = {Frontiers in neuroscience},
  volume    = {12},
  journal   = {Frontiers in neuroscience},
  publisher = {Frontiers Research Foundation},
  address   = {Lausanne},
  issn      = {1662-453X},
  doi       = {10.3389/fnins.2018.01041},
  pages     = {9},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {Despite the widespread use of oral contraceptives (OCs), remarkably little is known about the effects of OCs on emotion, cognition, and behavior. However, coincidental findings suggest that OCs impair the ability to recognize others' emotional expressions, which may have serious consequences in interpersonal contexts. To further investigate the effects of OCs on emotion recognition, we tested whether women who were using OCs (n = 42) would be less accurate in the recognition of complex emotional expressions than women who were not using OCs (n = 53). In addition, we explored whether these differences in emotion recognition would depend on women's menstrual cycle phase. We found that women with OC use were indeed less accurate in the recognition of complex expressions than women without OC use, in particular during the processing of expressions that were difficult to recognize. These differences in emotion recognition did not depend on women's menstrual cycle phase. Our findings, thus, suggest that OCs impair women's emotion recognition, which should be taken into account when informing women about the side-effects of OC use.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{LobmaierFischer2017,
  author    = {Lobmaier, Janek S. and Fischer, Martin H.},
  title     = {Facial feedback affects perceived intensity but not quality of emotional expressions},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-400157},
  pages     = {12},
  year      = {2017},
  abstract  = {Motivated by conflicting evidence in the literature, we re-assessed the role of facial feedback when detecting quantitative or qualitative changes in others' emotional expressions. Fifty-three healthy adults observed self-paced morph sequences where the emotional facial expression either changed quantitatively (i.e., sad-to-neutral, neutral-to-sad, happy-to-neutral, neutral-to-happy) or qualitatively (i.e. from sad to happy, or from happy to sad). Observers held a pen in their own mouth to induce smiling or frowning during the detection task. When morph sequences started or ended with neutral expressions we replicated a congruency effect: Happiness was perceived longer and sooner while smiling; sadness was perceived longer and sooner while frowning. Interestingly, no such congruency effects occurred for transitions between emotional expressions. These results suggest that facial feedback is especially useful when evaluating the intensity of a facial expression, but less so when we have to recognize which emotion our counterpart is expressing.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{LobmaierFischer2015,
  author    = {Lobmaier, Janek S. and Fischer, Martin H.},
  title     = {Facial Feedback Affects Perceived Intensity but Not Quality of Emotional Expressions},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-96428},
  pages     = {357 -- 368},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {Motivated by conflicting evidence in the literature, we re-assessed the role of facial feedback when detecting quantitative or qualitative changes in others' emotional expressions. Fifty-three healthy adults observed self-paced morph sequences where the emotional facial expression either changed quantitatively (i.e., sad-to-neutral, neutral-to-sad, happy-to-neutral, neutral-to-happy) or qualitatively (i.e. from sad to happy, or from happy to sad). Observers held a pen in their own mouth to induce smiling or frowning during the detection task. When morph sequences started or ended with neutral expressions we replicated a congruency effect: Happiness was perceived longer and sooner while smiling; sadness was perceived longer and sooner while frowning. Interestingly, no such congruency effects occurred for transitions between emotional expressions. These results suggest that facial feedback is especially useful when evaluating the intensity of a facial expression, but less so when we have to recognize which emotion our counterpart is expressing.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{LobmaierFischer2015,
  author    = {Lobmaier, Janek S. and Fischer, Martin H.},
  title     = {Facial Feedback Affects Perceived Intensity but Not Quality of Emotional Expressions},
  series = {Brain Sciences},
  volume    = {5},
  journal   = {Brain Sciences},
  number    = {3},
  publisher = {MDPI AG},
  address   = {Basel},
  issn      = {2076-3425},
  doi       = {10.3390/brainsci5030357},
  pages     = {357 -- 368},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {Motivated by conflicting evidence in the literature, we re-assessed the role of facial feedback when detecting quantitative or qualitative changes in others' emotional expressions. Fifty-three healthy adults observed self-paced morph sequences where the emotional facial expression either changed quantitatively (i.e., sad-to-neutral, neutral-to-sad, happy-to-neutral, neutral-to-happy) or qualitatively (i.e. from sad to happy, or from happy to sad). Observers held a pen in their own mouth to induce smiling or frowning during the detection task. When morph sequences started or ended with neutral expressions we replicated a congruency effect: Happiness was perceived longer and sooner while smiling; sadness was perceived longer and sooner while frowning. Interestingly, no such congruency effects occurred for transitions between emotional expressions. These results suggest that facial feedback is especially useful when evaluating the intensity of a facial expression, but less so when we have to recognize which emotion our counterpart is expressing.},
  language  = {en}
}