Research on social cognition has fruitfully applied computational modeling approaches to
explain how observers understand and reason about others' mental states. By contrast …

Highlights•Emotion perception research relies heavily on stereotypical decontextualized
posed faces.•Real-life facial expressions are highly ambiguous and thus rely on contextual …

For decades, psychology has relied on highly standardized images to understand how
people respond to faces. Many of these stimuli are rigorously generated and supported by …

Highlights•Humans recognize and reason about specific fine-grained emotions in
others.•Generative causal models of people's intuitive theory of mind can formalize human …

That basic emotions produce a facial signal would—if true—provide a foundation for a
science of emotion. Here, random-effects meta-analyses tested whether happiness …

Emotion recognition is an essential human ability critical for social functioning. It is widely
assumed that identifying facial expression is the key to this, and models of emotion …

It is commonly believed that expressions visually signal rich diagnostic information to human
observers. We studied how observers interpret the dynamic expressions that people …

The majority of emotion perception studies utilize instructed and stereotypical expressions of
faces or bodies. While such stimuli are highly standardized and well-recognized, their …

Although positive and negative affect are assumed to be highly distinct, recent work has
shown that facial valence of positive and negative situations may be highly confusable …

Previous research has postulated effects of environmental stress on ingroup/outgroup
thinking: The higher the pathogenic risk and the perceived vulnerability to it, the higher the …