The classic theory of face perception holds that the invariant (eg, identity and race) and
variant (eg, expression) dimensions of face information are independent of one another.
Two separate neural systems are involved in face processing. However, the dynamic theory
of face perception indicates that these two neural systems interact bidirectionally.
Accordingly, by using the emotion categorization task and morph movies task, we
investigated the influence of facial attractiveness on facial expression recognition and …