Subjective and objective difficulty of emotional facial expression perception from dynamic stimuli.

ABSTRACT: This study aimed to discover predictors of subjective and objective difficulty in emotion perception from dynamic facial expressions. We used a multidimensional emotion perception framework, in which observers rated the perceived emotion along a number of dimensions instead of choosing from traditionally-used discrete categories of emotions. Data were collected online from 441 participants who rated facial expression stimuli in a novel paradigm designed to separately measure subjective (self-reported) and objective (deviation from the population consensus) difficulty. We targeted person-specific (sex and age of observers and actors) and stimulus-specific (valence and arousal values) predictors of those difficulty scores. Our findings suggest that increasing age of actors makes emotion perc

SUBMITTER: Schneider JN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9202844 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature