Warsaw set of emotional facial expression pictures: a validation study of facial display photographs.

ABSTRACT: Emotional facial expressions play a critical role in theories of emotion and figure prominently in research on almost every aspect of emotion. This article provides a background for a new database of basic emotional expressions. The goal in creating this set was to provide high quality photographs of genuine facial expressions. Thus, after proper training, participants were inclined to express "felt" emotions. The novel approach taken in this study was also used to establish whether a given expression was perceived as intended by untrained judges. The judgment task for perceivers was designed to be sensitive to subtle changes in meaning caused by the way an emotional display was evoked and expressed. Consequently, this allowed us to measure the purity and intensity of emotional displays, w

SUBMITTER: Olszanowski M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4283518 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature