In everyday life, we communicate each other not only with verbal cue but also nonverbal information of multi-modality such as facial and vocal expression. But, it has not been studied enough how we combine those nonverbal information.
So, we investigated the mutual regulation rule between facial and vocal emotional expression. Any of seven kinds of emotional expressions (happiness, neutral, surprise, sadness, fear, disgust and anger) were presented to the subjects visually and vocally at the same time by still figure with facial expression and by his or her voice tone of short message. They judged the stimulus person's emotion by using both information.
In the condition that visual and audio emotion were the same, we found that correction rate of judgements was high (87.63%), response time was short (4.20sec) and confidence level was high (4.35/5.0) compare with incongruent condition in which visual and audio emotions were different. As to the incongruent condition, we had two main results: (1) Basically, visual information was more dominant than visual information except disgust. (2) Many fused responses were also found, which mean the person's emotion was interpreted as the third one different from visual and audio emotion. Fused responses of "disgust" appeared most frequently. We considered it as the following: when two kinds of conflict unpleasant emotions were expressed simultaneously, we may interpret the true emotion with the bias toward "disgust" to make the accounts balance because disgust is rather ambiguous displeasure emotion..

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This study examined how the emotional awareness affected the image characterized by mother's emotional acceptance. 110 subjects (female undergraduates) were asked to complete the questionnaire about the emotional awareness task and the task designed to assess the image to be generated by mother's emotional acceptance. With the emotional awareness task, the subjects described their anticipated feelings and also indicated the feelings shown by the other persons in ten vignettes: five vignettes to elicit positive feelings and another five vignettes to elicit negative feelings. Further, the subjects described their mother's responses in three vignettes to assess the image of mother's emotional acceptance. ANOVA yielded a significant effect of the image characterized by mother's emotional acceptance on the subject's own emotional awareness, especially for negative feelings. Consequently, this study has found that the mother's emotional acceptance allows the adolescents to be aware of their own feelings. However, additional studies are necessary in order to find out whether other subjects such as males and various age groups would produce the results similar to those by the female adolescents in this study.

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The purpose of this research was to determine intra-and interpersonal inhibitors of disclosure of emotional episodes, and also to examine whether these reasons might be different by emotion type: Anger, sadness, and happiness. Two hundred fifty nine college students rated 81 items that were thought to represent reasons for inhibiting emotional disclosure. Factor analysis yielded seven factors relating to reasons for inhibition of emotional disclosure: Self-protection, Difficulty in clarification, Avoiding consciousness understanding, Preventing negative social evaluation, Worsening of relationships, Consideration of others, and Self perception of social worth of topic. Suggestions for the predominant reasons why differences in disclosure was prevented by emotion type is discussed.

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