eprintid: 617 rev_number: 7 eprint_status: archive userid: 2 dir: disk0/00/00/06/17 datestamp: 2022-04-13 23:55:14 lastmod: 2023-06-30 23:30:20 status_changed: 2022-04-13 23:55:14 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Frances, Candice creators_name: Pueyo Villa, Silvia creators_name: Anaya, Vanessa creators_name: Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni creators_id: creators_id: silvia.pueyo@uneatlantico.es creators_id: vanessa.anaya@uneatlantico.es creators_id: title: Interpreting Foreign Smiles: Language Context and Type of Scale in the Assessment of Perceived Happiness and Sadness ispublished: pub subjects: uneat_ps divisions: uneatlantico_produccion_cientifica full_text_status: none abstract: The current study focuses on how different scales with varying demands can affect our subjective assessments. We carried out 2 experiments in which we asked participants to rate how happy or sad morphed images of faces looked. The two extremes were the original happy and original sad faces with 4 morphs in between. We manipulated language of the task—namely, half of the participants carried it out in their native language, Spanish, and the other half in their foreign language, English—and type of scale. Within type of scale, we compared verbal and brightness scales. We found that, while language did not have an effect on the assessment, type of scale did. The brightness scale led to overall higher ratings, i.e., assessing all faces as somewhat happier. This provides a limitation on the foreign language effect, as well as evidence for the influence of the cognitive demands of a scale on emotionality assessments. date: 2020-01 publication: Psicológica Journal volume: 41 number: 1 pagerange: 21-38 id_number: doi:10.2478/psicolj-2020-0002 refereed: TRUE issn: 1576-8597 official_url: http://doi.org/10.2478/psicolj-2020-0002 access: open language: en citation: Artículo Materias > Psicología Universidad Europea del Atlántico > Investigación > Producción Científica Abierto Inglés The current study focuses on how different scales with varying demands can affect our subjective assessments. We carried out 2 experiments in which we asked participants to rate how happy or sad morphed images of faces looked. The two extremes were the original happy and original sad faces with 4 morphs in between. We manipulated language of the task—namely, half of the participants carried it out in their native language, Spanish, and the other half in their foreign language, English—and type of scale. Within type of scale, we compared verbal and brightness scales. We found that, while language did not have an effect on the assessment, type of scale did. The brightness scale led to overall higher ratings, i.e., assessing all faces as somewhat happier. This provides a limitation on the foreign language effect, as well as evidence for the influence of the cognitive demands of a scale on emotionality assessments. metadata Frances, Candice; Pueyo Villa, Silvia; Anaya, Vanessa y Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni mail SIN ESPECIFICAR, silvia.pueyo@uneatlantico.es, vanessa.anaya@uneatlantico.es, SIN ESPECIFICAR (2020) Interpreting Foreign Smiles: Language Context and Type of Scale in the Assessment of Perceived Happiness and Sadness. Psicológica Journal, 41 (1). pp. 21-38. ISSN 1576-8597