Temperamental Predictors of Categoriality of Perception of Facial Expressions

We study the differentiation of expression of the faces of subjects with different levels of extraversion and neuroticism. The effectiveness of differentiation was set by the result of the implementation of discriminatory ABX-problem. Stimulus material was a pair of images combined expression of a person belonging to the transitional series “joy-fear”, “fear-anger”, “anger-joy”. Indicators of extraversion and neuroticism were determined using a questionnaire EPI. It is shown that the effect of categoriality of perception of expression differently pronounced for groups of subjects with different levels of extraversion and neuroticism.

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