Ecological Facial Display Recognition
Facial displays have been predominantly viewed as expressions of emotions
[1]. That is,
humans feel emotions, and these emotions are displayed in the face, unless they are
masked by the displayer.
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Social Filter
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However, this view suffers some problems.
Recent experiments have shown that humans do not involuntarily
express their emotions in their face. Instead, humans use their face as
a means of communicating to others. Humans usually use their face
only if there is someone else to see the results!
Read more about the
ecological view of facial displays.
- Carroll E. Izard. Emotions and facial expressions: A perspective from differential emotions theory.
In James A. Russell and Jose Miguel Fernandez-Dols, editors, The Psychology of Facial Expression,
chapter 5, pages 103-129. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1997.