Table 3.
Masked and unmasked stimuli confusion matrix, with mean percentage of each response to each emotion and masked and unmasked negative misattributions to neutral and positive emotions (misattributions of anger, disgust, fear, and sad for happy, surprise, and neutral)
| Masked stimuli | Unmasked stimuli | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perceived emotion | Negative misattributions | Perceived emotion | Negative misattributions | |||||||||||||
| Anger | Disgust | Fear | Neutral | Happy | Sad | Suprise | Anger | Disgust | Fear | Neutral | Happy | Sad | Suprise | |||
| Anger | 68.4% | 10.4% | 4.0%* | 3.9%* | 2.7% | 3.8%* | 5.9%* | 76.2% | 12.3% | 2.5% | 1.3% | 2.0% | 2.4% | 2.2 | ||
| Disgust | 37.8%* | 21.1% | 5.3%* | 7.8%* | 10.4%* | 8.7%* | 7.6%* | 6.4% | 77.9% | 2.7% | 1.7% | 5.5% | 1.9% | 2.9 | ||
| Fear | 2.0% | 3.8% | 28.5% | 4.9%* | 2.5%* | 3.8 | 53.8%* | 2.2% | 12.7% | 46.4% | 1.8% | 1.2% | 6.4% | 28.6 | ||
| Neutral | 2.3% | 1.5% | 0.9% | 87.9% | 2.0% | 3.9 | 1.1% | 2.1% | 2.2% | 2.6% | 0.7% | 83.9% | 2.2% | 5.2% | 2.0% | 2.7% |
| Happy | 1.5%* | 1.4% | 1.3% | 25.3%* | 65.5% | 2.0%* | 2.2%* | 1.5% | 0.7% | 0.7% | 0.9% | 0.0% | 93.7% | 0.4% | 0.8% | 0.7% |
| Sad | 10.9%* | 12.3%* | 9.7%* | 28.4%* | 1.5%* | 32.4% | 7.8%* | 3.9% | 8.1% | 4.4% | 5.9% | 0.6% | 77.8% | 2.3% | ||
| Suprise | 1.5% | 1.7% | 11.3% | 9.8%* | 3.9% | 2.5%* | 64.6% | 4.2% | 1.0% | 1.7% | 8.7% | 1.3% | 5.3% | 1.5% | 76.1% | 3.2% |
*Represents misclassifications made more frequently in masked conditions, Bonferroni-corrected pairwise comparisons p < .05. Bolded numbers represent correct responses
Represents misclassifications made more frequently in unmasked conditions