This study will measure the impact of background stimuli on the perception of fear in facial expressions. Participant color vision will be assessed by using the Ishihara plates (Ishihara, 1972). Thereon, participants will view booklets containing fearful facial expressions with one of three backgrounds (static, blue, and black). Participants will be ask to be asked to thoughtfully examine each page containing the image of the fearful facial expression and rate the intensity of fear expressed on a 9-point Likert scale.
Participants
Ninety undergraduate students from a small liberal arts college will be selected for convenience sampling. Each participant will be randomly assigned to one of three backgrounds, 1) fearful facial expressions paired…show more content… Fourteen Ishihara plates will be shown through Ishihara color test plate book one-by-one. Each plate will have to be answered by each participant in no longer than three seconds. After participant completion of the Ishihara test, response papers are going to be collected. Prior to showing the fearful facial expression booklets to each of the groups (static, blue, and black) a document containing ten 9-point Likert scales will be distributed to participants. Next, ten pages illustrating a different fearful facial expression with consistent background type (e.g., ten different fearful facial-expression with either static, blue, or black background pages) will be shown. Participants will be given 10 seconds to view each page. After each page, pause time will be given to participants to rate fearfulness on given Likert scale. Once all 10 pages are viewed and responses have notated, the response paper will be collected, and participants will be thanked for their…show more content… Second, fearful facial-expression with background colors (see appendix B) are printed. Each pages are laminated and bound together with three metal binding rings. Ten fearful facial-expressions are collected from The Japanese female Facial Expression (JAFFE) with variation in continuum of fearful facial-expression intensity (Lyons, Akemastu, Kamachi, & Gyoba, 1998). Static background color is collected from Google image, and two of the background colors—blue and black—are generated from Microsoft Office PowerPoint. Each solid colors are coded with color hex, which blue color is coded #0000FF and black color is coded #000000. Additionally, electronic devices are used to create materials is Acer (R3-71/2015)
