Abstract
This study aims to examine 1) whether context effect upon judgments on categories of facial expressions will be found, 2) whether difference between the effects upon judgment with different intensities exists, and 3) whether the effect differs in the congruence between facial expression and emotional state suggested by the context. Short stories describing situations the target persons experienced were used as context information, and neutral, smile, and anger faces of different intensities were used as target stimuli. Result showed that smiling faces were not affected by context information unless the intensity is low. Context effect was found upon anger faces regardless of intensity. Differences between smile and anger regarding their semantic and physiognomic characters will be discussed.
