• DOI:10.1177/0963721411422522
Corpus ID: 35713636

Context in Emotion Perception

@article{Barrett2011ContextIE,
  title={Context in Emotion Perception},
  author={L. Barrett and B. Mesquita and M. Gendron},
  journal={Current Directions in Psychological Science},
  year={2011},
  volume={20},
  pages={286 - 290}
}

L. Barrett, B. Mesquita, M. Gendron

Published 2011

Psychology

Current Directions in Psychological Science

We review recent work demonstrating consistent context effects during emotion perception. Visual scenes, voices, bodies, other faces, cultural orientation, and even words shape how emotion is perceived in a face, calling into question the still-common assumption that the emotional state of a person is written on and can be read from the face like words on a page. Incorporating context during emotion perception appears to be routine, efficient, and, to some degree, automatic. This evidence… CONTINUE READING

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