Perception of Contradiction in Verbal and Nonverbal Emotional Expression and Its Impact On Memory Recall

Video clips of emotional expression (i.e., happy, sad, and angry) containing congruency, incongruency; synchrony and asynchrony between the verbal and nonverbal content of the message were shown to subjects. The subjects were asked to indicate the emotions expressed in every clip. Immediately after the initial trial subjects were asked to recall the verbal statement accompanied by every emotional expression. The differences between the number of recalls under congruent vs. incongruent and synchronous vs. asynchronous conditions were significant. The results for the correct judgement of the emotions expressed in every clip were analysed. There were significant differences between congruent and incongruent conditions. However, no noticeable difference was found between synchrony and asynchrony.