APS

29th APS Annual Convention · 2017

The Good, the Bad and the Ambiguous: On the Failure to Utilize Diagnostic Information in Isolated Extreme Facial Expressions

Boston, MA · May 2017

Poster Session · Personality/Emotion

  • Olga Semyonov
    The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • Ron Dotsch
    Universiteit Utrecht
  • Hillel Aviezer
    The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Abstract

Viewers are unable to reliably differentiate the valence of intense real-life expressions without the use of body context, not even when provided with objective information regarding facial activity and valence. It is proposed that this immunity might result from stereotypical (but erroneous) inner representations of extreme expression.

Emotion

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