ОСОБЕННОСТИ ВОСПРИЯТИЯ ПРИВЛЕКАТЕЛЬНОСТИ ЛИЦА ПРИ РАЗНОМ УРОВНЕ ЭМОЦИОНАЛЬНОГО ИНТЕЛЛЕКТА

Abstract

Background. Many studies have been devoted to the relationship between the perception of facial expression and emotional intelligence (EI). As a rule, the study of this issue involved the tasks of expression recognition with stimuli expressing strong basic emotions. However, diX erences in the success of expression recognition in groups with diX erent levels of EI are not always signiY cantly pronounced. Z is may be connected to the fact, that the recognition of basic expressions is too easy for subjects with both high and low EI scores. In order to conduct a more effective study of this issue, it is necessary to complicate the task of facial expressions recognition. To this end, one of the conY gurational eX ects of E. Brunswick stating that neutral faces with diX erent conY gurations of facial features are perceived as emotionally colored, can be used. Under these conditions, a more adequate task is not to assess the success of expression recognition, but to assess the attractiveness of the face, which is closely related to the perceived facial expression. Z us, faces with positive expressions are more o[ en rated as attractive, and vice versa. It is assumed that the study of the perception of neutral faces will reveal the features of the relationship between the perception of facial expression and EI. Objective. Z e study is meant to explore the relationship between the perception of facial attractiveness and EI. It was assumed that subjects with diX erent levels of EI would evaluate the attractiveness of neutral faces diX erently. Sample. Z e experiment involved 49 people (20 men and 29 women, in the age range of 18–35 years). Methods. Images of faces were presented on a monitor screen. Eye movements were recorded during stimuli presentation. Z e level of EI was assessed based on the results of the “Test of emotional intelligence” (TEI) (Sergienko et al., 2019). We calculated indicators of TEI for all branches of EI (the abilities to recognize, understand, manage, and use emotions), as well as the total score of EI. An analysis of face attractiveness scores as well as eye movement parametres (duration and number of Y xations, duration of saccades) was carried out for two groups of subjects with high and low EI scores.