EmBody/EmFace as a new open tool to assess emotion recognition from body and face expressions.

ABSTRACT: Nonverbal expressions contribute substantially to social interaction by providing information on another person's intentions and feelings. While emotion recognition from dynamic facial expressions has been widely studied, dynamic body expressions and the interplay of emotion recognition from facial and body expressions have attracted less attention, as suitable diagnostic tools are scarce. Here, we provide validation data on a new open source paradigm enabling the assessment of emotion recognition from both 3D-animated emotional body expressions (Task 1: EmBody) and emotionally corresponding dynamic faces (Task 2: EmFace). Both tasks use visually standardized items depicting three emotional states (angry, happy, neutral), and can be used alone or together. We here demonstrate successful ps

SUBMITTER: Lott LL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9391359 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature