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
- 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