Different people interpret facial impressions very differently, study reveals QMUL PNASNews
Previously, research into the interpretation of emotional expressions has been limited because experimental tools representingProceedings of the National Academy of Sciencesto the avatars, so that users could progressively refine the avatars' facial expressions until they thought the expression reflected what they thought a particular emotion should look like.
A total of 336 people then used the avatars to generate facial expressions to represent happiness, fear, sadness and anger. The researchers found that the expressions people generated varied substantially, suggesting that people associate different facial expressions with the sameThe researchers then also used a standard emotion recognition test on the people who had generated the expressions on the avatars.
The researchers recommend that future research on emotion processing should move away from using methods and stimuli that correspond to stereotypes, and favor approaches that account for more diversity and richness of expression.
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