PSYC18H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Facial Action Coding System, Emotion Classification
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Basic emotions will have a reliably encoded and decoded facial expression. Facial action coding system know what muscles are being activated no emotion involved just muscular. Ekman how can we know if people can universally detect emotion. Photos of facial expression of isolated culture to decode. How to know id they understand the question, or you understand the answer to the emotions; had to simplify and used vignettes relevant to the tribe and pick the emotion. Summary of >2,000 participants from western and non-western cultural backgrounds using ekman"s paradigm. Accuracy rates are high in western and non-western samples (well above chance") These methods could inflate accuracy rates and even teach participants about emotion categories they haven"t had before. Asked to categorize the face as expressing sad, fear, anger, pride, disgust, surprise, or happiness. Same face can be judged differently depending on the context. Our perception of emotion is constructed from various sources.
