Study on how facial expression of speakers cause sympathy to partners: through an experiment of using a technique of CG computer graphics

摘要

In personal relationships among people, it is considered that expression of smiling of speakers always give good feelings to their partners. However, it sometimes occurs that expression of smiling of the speakers brings the partners the reverse feelings. As a result, it seems that facial expressions of speakers influence responses of partners. The purpose of this research is to examine how facial expressions of speakers influence the degree of sympathy of partners and their reactions through a psychological experiment. A hypothesis of our experiment is that in certain conditions, if the partners have the same feelings as those of speakers, the partners are likely to feel sympathy and establish good relationship with the speakers. In our experiment, we confirmed cases in which the speakers in anger were able to get more assists from the partners than the speakers in other conditions. Our experiments have shown us that the affiliation motivations were established and the partners gave more assists to speakers who have the same feelings as partners. Finally, it could be concluded that our hypothesis is supported by our experiment, and even though the partners are persons of CG, the speakers are likely to have good social relationships with them.