ABSTRACT

The use of self-produced cues seems to be a much more immediate and unself-conscious process of attribution, so much so that people often deny that it occurs even in the face of evidence. The expression manipulations were presented as part of the physiological measurement procedures, and the emotion measures as controls for experimental error; thus, neither was presented as a central part of the ostensible purpose of the experiment. To obtain a single score representing the extent of the effect of the manipulation of expression for each replication as a whole, the emotional response score for the "frown" trial was subtracted from the same score for the "smile" trial, to yield a single score for each 5 for each replication. The use of self-produced cues seems to be a much more immediate and unself-conscious process of attribution, so much so that people often deny that it occurs even in the face of evidence.