ArticleNature communications2024
Face and context integration in emotion inference is limited and variable across categories and individuals.
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- Advances in Video Emotion Recognition: Challenges and Trends.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Real-life intense fear is communicated through context, not facial expressions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Contextual cues shape facial emotion recognition: a combined behavioral and ERP study.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
- Face and context integration in emotion inference is limited and variable across categories and individuals.Nature communications · 2024Article
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Abstract
The ability to make nuanced inferences about other people's emotional states is central to social functioning. While emotion inferences can be sensitive to both facial movements and the situational context that they occur in, relatively little is understood about when these two sources of information are integrated across emotion categories and individuals. In a series of studies, we use one archival and five empirical datasets to demonstrate that people could be integrating, but that emotion inferences are just as well (and sometimes better) captured by knowledge of the situation alone, while isolated facial cues are insufficient. Further, people integrate facial cues more for categories for which they most frequently encounter facial expressions in everyday life (e.g., happiness). People are also moderately stable over time in their reliance on situational cues and integration of cues and those who reliably utilize situation cues more also have better situated emotion knowledge. These findings underscore the importance of studying variability in reliance on and integration of cues.
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