PSY 005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Social Emotions, Eye Tracking
4 Oct 2020
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Not all emotion theorists have agreed with ekman"s conclusion that there are six (or more) universal facial expressions. Dif culty with applying that universally - not everybody across every culture perceived it the same way. There is even less agreement when participants are asked to name the emotion shown in a face, rather than to select emotion terms from a list in which the number of emotion terms matches the number of faces. They approached adults and found most of them recognized happiness, but correct responses for the other emotions were much lower. Compared the facial expressions of canadians and africans and found evidence of variability. Cultural difference were most pronounced for social emotions such as contempt and anger and least pronounced for re ex-based emotions such as disgust and surprise. The claim of universality also suggests that basic facial expressions of emotion should be easily identi ed regardless of the context in which they are perceived.
