APS

30th APS Annual Convention

40 Years of FACS: Research and Applications of the Facial Action Coding System

Thursday, May 24, 2018 · San Francisco, CA

Oral · Personality/Emotion

This symposium celebrates the 40th anniversary of Ekman and Friesen’s Facial Action Coding System (FACS; 1978; 2002). FACS was developed to further scientific research on facial expressions of emotion. Its impact now extends far beyond emotion research. This symposium highlights FACS-based research in diverse fields within and outside psychological science.

Chairs & Discussants

  • Erika RosenbergChair
    Stanford University
  • Paul EkmanDiscussant
    University of California, San Francisco

Presentations

  1. Applications of the Facial Action Coding System inside and Outside of Psychological ScienceErika Rosenberg
  2. Baby FACS: Basic and Applied Research on Infant Facial Expressions and Infant-Caregiver InteractionHarriet Oster
  3. Automated FACS-Based Face Analysis for Clinical Science.Jeffrey Cohn
  4. Universals, Variations, and the Structure of Emotional Expression: Insights from FACS and BeyondDacher Keltner