In the face of stress: Interpreting individual differences in stress-induced facial expressions.

ABSTRACT: Stress is an inevitable part of life that can profoundly impact social and emotional functioning, contributing to the development of psychiatric disease. One key component of emotion and social processing is facial expressions, which humans can readily detect and react to even without conscious awareness. Facial expressions have been the focus of philosophic and scientific interest for centuries. Historically, facial expressions have been relegated to peripheral indices of fixed emotion states. More recently, affective neuroscience has undergone a conceptual revolution, resulting in novel interpretations of these muscle movements. Here, we review the role of facial expressions according to the leading affective neuroscience theories, including constructed emotion and social-motivation acco

SUBMITTER: Mayo LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6535645 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature