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Abstract：
Just as receptive emotional abilities, productive emotional abilities are essential for social communication. Although individual differences in receptive emotional abilities, such as perceiving and recognizing emotions, are well-investigated, individual differences in productive emotional abilities, such as the ability to express emotions in the face, are largely neglected. Consequently, little is known about how emotion expression abilities fit in a nomological network of related abilities and typical behavior. We developed a multitask battery for measuring the ability to pose emotional expressions scored with facial expression recognition software. With three multivariate studies (n1 = 237; n2 = 141; n3 = 123), we test competing measurement models of emotion posing and relate this construct with other socio-emotional traits and cognitive abilities. We replicate the measurement model that includes a general factor of emotion posing, a nested task-specific factor, and emotion-specific factors. The emotion-posing ability factor is moderately to strongly related to receptive socio-emotional abilities, weakly related to general cognitive abilities, and weakly related to extraversion. This is strong evidence that emotion posing is a cognitive interpersonal ability. This new understanding of abilities in emotion communication opens a gateway for studying individual differences in social interaction.
摘要：
就像接受情感能力一样，富有成效的情感能力对于社会交往至关重要。尽管接受情绪能力存在个体差异，比如感知和识别情绪，经过充分调查，生产情绪能力的个体差异，比如面部表达情绪的能力，在很大程度上被忽视了。因此,关于情感表达能力如何适应相关能力和典型行为的法理网络，人们知之甚少。我们开发了一种多任务电池，用于测量面部表情识别软件评分的情绪表情的能力。通过三个多变量研究(n1=237；n2=141；n3=123)，我们测试了情绪姿势的竞争性测量模型，并将这种结构与其他社会情绪特征和认知能力联系起来。我们复制了测量模型，其中包括情绪构成的一般因素，嵌套的特定于任务的因素，和特定于情绪的因素。情绪构成能力因子与接受社会情绪能力中等到强相关，与一般认知能力弱相关，和外向性弱相关。这有力地证明了情绪摆姿势是一种认知人际交往能力。这种对情感交流能力的新理解为研究社交互动中的个体差异打开了大门。
