ArticleScience advances2023
Testing, explaining, and exploring models of facial expressions of emotions.
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- Artificial Empathy in Therapy and Healthcare: Advancements in Interpersonal Interaction Technologies.Cyborg and bionic systems (Washington, D.C.) · 2025Review
- Expression perceptive fields explain individual differences in the recognition of facial emotions.Communications psychology · 2024Article
- Cultural facial expressions dynamically convey emotion category and intensity information.Current biology : CB · 2024Article
- Advancements in brain-machine interfaces for application in the metaverse.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Review
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Abstract
Models are the hallmark of mature scientific inquiry. In psychology, this maturity has been reached in a pervasive question-what models best represent facial expressions of emotion? Several hypotheses propose different combinations of facial movements [action units (AUs)] as best representing the six basic emotions and four conversational signals across cultures. We developed a new framework to formalize such hypotheses as predictive models, compare their ability to predict human emotion categorizations in Western and East Asian cultures, explain the causal role of individual AUs, and explore updated, culture-accented models that improve performance by reducing a prevalent Western bias. Our predictive models also provide a noise ceiling to inform the explanatory power and limitations of different factors (e.g., AUs and individual differences). Thus, our framework provides a new approach to test models of social signals, explain their predictive power, and explore their optimization, with direct implications for theory development.
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