Research Article

Spread the Joy: How High and Low Bias for Happy Facial Emotions Translate into Different Daily Life Affect Dynamics

Table 3

Descriptive statistics of facial emotion identification scores.

High happy bias group ()Low happy bias group ()
MeanSDMeanSD

RT Total5522.61574.665236.69848.37
RT Happy3449.08377.554550.201034.25
RT Sad6797.62801.186051.651014.42
RT Angry5761.44705.295189.62916.74
RT Fearful6094.69883.375168.86821.34
Happy bias score1.820.141.230.13
Happy bias rank36.8418.92218.9622.25

RT = reaction time; RT Total = mean score on RT Happy, RT Sad, RT Angry, and RT Fearful; happy bias score = mean score on RT Sad, RT Angry, and RT Fearful divided by RT Happy; happy bias rank = summed rank of happy bias score at T0 and T2.