Emotional expressions reconsidered: Challenges to inferring emotion from human facial movements

LF Barrett, R Adolphs, S Marsella… - … science in the …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
It is commonly assumed that a person's emotional state can be readily inferred from his or
her facial movements, typically called emotional expressions or facial expressions. This …

As soon as there was life, there was danger: the deep history of survival behaviours and the shallower history of consciousness

JE LeDoux - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
It is often said that fear is a universal innate emotion that we humans have inherited from our
mammalian ancestors by virtue of having inherited conserved features of their nervous …

Emotion semantics show both cultural variation and universal structure

JC Jackson, J Watts, TR Henry, JM List, R Forkel… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Many human languages have words for emotions such as “anger” and “fear,” yet it is not
clear whether these emotions have similar meanings across languages, or why their …

Awe, the diminished self, and collective engagement: Universals and cultural variations in the small self.

Y Bai, LA Maruskin, S Chen, AM Gordon… - Journal of personality …, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
Awe has been theorized as a collective emotion, one that enables individuals to integrate
into social collectives. In keeping with this theorizing, we propose that awe diminishes the …

From text to thought: How analyzing language can advance psychological science

JC Jackson, J Watts, JM List… - Perspectives on …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Humans have been using language for millennia but have only just begun to scratch the
surface of what natural language can reveal about the mind. Here we propose that language …

Unlocking the emotional world of visual media: An overview of the science, research, and impact of understanding emotion

JZ Wang, S Zhao, C Wu, RB Adams… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The emergence of artificial emotional intelligence technology is revolutionizing the fields of
computers and robotics, allowing for a new level of communication and understanding of …

[HTML][HTML] An integrative review of the enjoyment of sadness associated with music

T Eerola, JK Vuoskoski, HR Peltola, V Putkinen… - Physics of life …, 2018 - Elsevier
The recent surge of interest towards the paradoxical pleasure produced by sad music has
generated a handful of theories and an array of empirical explorations on the topic …

Individual differences and the multidimensional nature of face perception

D White, AM Burton - Nature Reviews Psychology, 2022 - nature.com
Face perception is crucial to social interactions, yet people vary in how easily they can
recognize their friends, verify an identification document or notice someone's smile. There …

WEIRD–Confucian comparisons: Ongoing cultural biases in psychology's evidence base and some recommendations for improving global representation.

K Krys, I de Almeida, A Wasiel… - American Psychologist, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
The realization that most behavioral science research focuses on cultures labeled as
WEIRD—Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (Arnett, 2008; Henrich et …

Navigating the science of emotion

LF Barrett, C Westlin - Emotion measurement, 2021 - Elsevier
The science of emotion is muddled with a multitude of hypotheses and assumptions about
what emotions are and how they work. The standard narrative framework used in the …