caa a22 4500 555285375 20200410031630.0 cr unu---uuuuu 190206e20190123xx s 000 0 eng 1932-6203 10.1371/journal.pone.0210283 doi (BORIS)oai:boris.unibe.ch:125435 150 ddc 300 ddc 30673735 pmid Compassionate faces: Evidence for distinctive facial expressions associated with specific prosocial motivations [Elektronische Daten] [Caroline J. Falconer, Janek S. Lobmaier, Marina Christoforou, Sunjeev K. Kamboj, John A. King, Paul Gilbert, Chris R. Brewin] publishedVersion openAccess eu-repo Compassion is a complex cognitive, emotional and behavioural process that has important real-world consequences for the self and others. Considering this, it is important to understand how compassion is communicated. The current research investigated the expression and perception of compassion via the face. We generated exemplar images of two compassionate facial expressions induced from two mental imagery tasks with different compassionate motivations (Study 1). Our kind- and empathic compassion faces were perceived differently and the empathic-compassion expression was perceived as best depicting the general definition of compassion (Study 2). Our two composite faces differed in their perceived happiness, kindness, sadness, fear and concern, which speak to their underling motivation and emotional resonance. Finally, both faces were accurately discriminated when presented along a compassion continuum (Study 3). Our results demonstrate two perceptually and functionally distinct facial expressions of compassion, with potentially different consequences for the suffering of others. Falconer Caroline J. joint author Lobmaier Janek S. joint author Christoforou Marina joint author Kamboj Sunjeev K. joint author King John A. joint author Gilbert Paul joint author Brewin Chris R. joint author PLoS ONE 14(1), e0210283 1932-6203 https://boris.unibe.ch/125435/1/Falconer%2B2019_CompassionateFaces_PLoSONE.pdf text/html WWW-Backlink auf das Repository 1 info:eu-repo/semantics/article boris PeerReviewed boris peerstatus BORIS 856 40 https://boris.unibe.ch/125435/1/Falconer%2B2019_CompassionateFaces_PLoSONE.pdf text/html WWW-Backlink auf das Repository BORIS 700 1- Falconer Caroline J. joint author BORIS 700 1- Lobmaier Janek S. joint author BORIS 700 1- Christoforou Marina joint author BORIS 700 1- Kamboj Sunjeev K. joint author BORIS 700 1- King John A. joint author BORIS 700 1- Gilbert Paul joint author BORIS 700 1- Brewin Chris R. joint author BORIS 773 0- PLoS ONE 14(1), e0210283 1932-6203 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 BORIS BORIS BORIS info:eu-repo/semantics/article openAccess