Call for Papers: Meta-Analysis on the Inference/Recognition of Complex Emotions from the Face and Voice Across the Lifespan

[Emma Amyot]

Dear colleagues,

 

Our lab is conducting a meta-analysis on the inference/recognition of complex emotions from the face and voice across the lifespan. As part of this project, I am seeking both published and unpublished studies that meet the following criteria:

 

• Population/participants: 
• Human participants
• Aged 3+
• Typically developing / community sample (may be a control group)

 

• Methods/design: 
• Experimental/empirical studies
• Stimuli:
• Whole human facial configurations AND/OR,
• Human emotional prosody with neutral semantic content (may include pseudo-utterances, repeated syllables, etc.)
• Does NOT include:
• Cartoons/drawings, AI-generated stimuli, or stimulus modifications such as morphing
• Nonverbal vocalizations (e.g., laughing and crying)
• Isolated components of faces (e.g., only eyes)
• Stimuli include at least one “complex” emotion
• For our purposes, this includes any emotion other than happiness, sadness, fear, anger, disgust, surprise, and neutral/non-emotional
• Study may include both basic and complex emotions
• If an intervention was used, there must be a pre-test

 

• Outcomes/measures: 
• Behavioural accuracy or agreement (eye-tracking is not included)
• Discrete/categorical emotion judgements
• Does NOT include:
• Judgements about the presence/absence of emotion

 

• Format:
• Published in English
• Full-text, including:
• Articles / manuscripts (published, in-press, or unpublished)
• Theses / dissertations
• Conference proceedings
• Other grey literature

 

If you are aware of any relevant studies that fit these criteria, I would be very grateful if you could share them with me.

 

Please contact me by September 17^th at: Emma....@ucalgary.ca

 

Thank you very much for your time and assistance.

 

Best regards,

 

Emma Amyot, MSc

PhD Candidate

Psychology Department

University of Calgary

Language & Cognitive Development (LCD) Lab