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} }
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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