Emotional Expressions Reconsidered: Challenges to Inferring Emotion From Human Facial Movements.

ABSTRACT: It is commonly assumed that a person's emotional state can be readily inferred from his or her facial movements, typically called emotional expressions or facial expressions. This assumption influences legal judgments, policy decisions, national security protocols, and educational practices; guides the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric illness, as well as the development of commercial applications; and pervades everyday social interactions as well as research in other scientific fields such as artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and computer vision. In this article, we survey examples of this widespread assumption, which we refer to as the common view, and we then examine the scientific evidence that tests this view, focusing on the six most popular emotion cat

SUBMITTER: Barrett LF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6640856 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature