People spend a substantial portion of their lives engaged in conversation, and yet, our
scientific understanding of conversation is still in its infancy. Here, we introduce a large …

Social cognition remains one of the most difficult cognitive domains to assess in diverse
populations due to a lack of culturally appropriate tools. This study systematically reviewed …

It is long hypothesized that there is a reliable, specific mapping between certain emotional
states and the facial movements that express those states. This hypothesis is often tested by …

Emotional intelligence (EI) has been frequently studied as a predictor of work criteria, but
disparate approaches to defining and measuring EI have produced rather inconsistent …

Traditional impression formation studies have focused almost exclusively on the perception
and evaluation of isolated individuals. In recent years, however, portrayals of third-party …

When we do not know how to correctly behave in a new context, the emotions that people
familiar with the context show in response to the behaviors of others, can help us understand …

The social context—seeing people emotionally interacting—is one of the most common
contexts in which emotion perception occurs. Despite its importance, emotion perception of …

Current state-of-the-art models for automatic facial expression recognition (FER) are based
on very deep neural networks that are effective but rather expensive to train. Given the …

Researchers often disagree as to whether emotions are largely consistent across people
and over time, or whether they are variable. They also disagree as to whether emotions are …

The accurate decoding of facial emotion expressions lies at the center of many research
traditions in psychology. Much of this research, while paying lip service to the importance of …