Recognizing Emotions through Facial Expressions: A Largescale Experimental Study.

ABSTRACT: Experimental research examining emotional processes is typically based on the observation of images with affective content, including facial expressions. Future studies will benefit from databases with emotion-inducing stimuli in which characteristics of the stimuli potentially influencing results can be controlled. This study presents Portuguese normative data for the identification of seven facial expressions of emotions (plus a neutral face), on the Radboud Faces Database (RaFD). The effect of participants' gender and models' sex on emotion recognition was also examined. Participants (N = 1249) were exposed to 312 pictures of white adults displaying emotional and neutral faces with a frontal gaze. Recognition agreement between the displayed and participants' chosen expressions ranged fr

SUBMITTER: Dores AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7599941 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature