Ecological Facial Display Recognition

The old view of facial motion and pose as universal expression of emotion is being challenged. Simply put, the new view is that faces are used for communication.

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That is, humans in an interaction have certain social goals they are trying to fulfill, and they use their faces to indicate to their interlocutor the directions they would like the interaction to follow. One implication of this theory is that human facial displays will be different in different contexts. This is contrary to the emotions view, which tries to claim that facial displays are expressions of universal emotions. Read more on context