Emotional expressions with minimal facial muscle actions. Report 1: Cues and targets

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yulia Roitblat ◽  
Sabrina Cohensedgh ◽  
Eden Frig-Levinson ◽  
Ethan Suman ◽  
Michael Shterenshis
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Expressions ◽  
Facial Muscle ◽  
Muscle Actions

Emotional expressions with minimal facial muscle actions. Report 2: Recognition of emotions

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yulia Roitblat ◽  
Sabrina Cohensedgh ◽  
Eden Frig-Levinson ◽  
Mika Cohen ◽  
Kayla Dadbin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Expressions ◽  
Facial Muscle ◽  
Recognition Of Emotions ◽  
Muscle Actions

scholarly journals Objective and bias-free measures of candidate motivation during job applications

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mitchel Kappen ◽  
Marnix Naber
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Emotional Expressions ◽  
Facial Muscle ◽  
Nonverbal Behaviors ◽  
Selection Procedures ◽  
Job Candidates ◽  
Learning Software ◽  
Job Assessment ◽  
Unequal Opportunities ◽  
Biased Judgments

AbstractSociety suffers from biases and discrimination, a longstanding dilemma that stems from ungrounded, subjective judgments. Especially unequal opportunities in labor remain a persistent challenge, despite the recent inauguration of top-down diplomatic measures. Here we propose a solution by using an objective approach to the measurement of nonverbal behaviors of job candidates that trained for a job assessment. First, we implemented and developed artificial intelligence, computer vision, and unbiased machine learning software to automatically detect facial muscle activity and emotional expressions to predict the candidates’ self-reported motivation levels. The motivation judgments by our model outperformed recruiters’ unreliable, invalid, and sometimes biased judgments. These findings mark the necessity and usefulness of novel, bias-free, and scientific approaches to candidate and employee screening and selection procedures in recruitment and human resources.

scholarly journals Reconsidering the Duchenne Smile: Formalizing and Testing Hypotheses About Eye Constriction and Positive Emotion

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey M. Girard ◽  
Jeffrey F Cohn ◽  
Lijun Yin ◽  
Louis-Philippe Morency
Keyword(s):  
Positive Emotion ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Emotional Expressions ◽  
Facial Muscle ◽  
Physical Pain ◽  
Common View ◽  
Testing Hypotheses ◽  
Duchenne Smile ◽  
The Common

The common view of emotional expressions is that certain configurations of facial-muscle movements reliably reveal certain categories of emotion. The principal exemplar of this view is the Duchenne smile, a configuration of facial-muscle movements (i.e., smiling with eye constriction) that has been argued to reliably reveal genuine positive emotion. In this paper, we formalized a list of hypotheses that have been proposed regarding the Duchenne smile, briefly reviewed the literature weighing on these hypotheses, identified limitations and unanswered questions, and conducted two empirical studies to begin addressing these limitations and answering these questions. Both studies analyzed a database of 751 smiles observed while 136 participants completed experimental tasks designed to elicit amusement, embarrassment, fear, and physical pain. Study 1 focused on participants’ self-reported positive emotion and Study 2 focused on how third-party observers would perceive videos of these smiles. Most of the hypotheses that have been proposed about the Duchenne smile were either contradicted by or only weakly supported by our data. Eye constriction did provide some information about experienced positive emotion, but this information was lacking in specificity, already provided by other smile characteristics, and highly dependent on context. Eye constriction provided more information about perceived positive emotion, including some unique information over other smile characteristics, but context was also important here as well. Overall, our results suggest that accurately inferring positive emotion from a smile requires more sophisticated methods than simply looking for the presence/absence (or even the intensity) of eye constriction.

Simulation of Facial Muscle Actions Based on Rational Free Form Deformations

1992 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 59-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prem Kalra ◽  
Angelo Mangili ◽  
Nadia Magnenat Thalmann ◽  
Daniel Thalmann
Keyword(s):  
Free Form ◽  
Facial Muscle ◽  
Muscle Actions

scholarly journals Language That Puts You in Touch With Your Bodily Feelings

2009 ◽  
Vol 20 (8) ◽  
pp. 974-980 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Foroni ◽  
Gün R. Semin
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Psychology ◽  
Muscle Activity ◽  
Muscle Activation ◽  
Muscular Activity ◽  
Emotional Expressions ◽  
Facial Muscle ◽  
Verbal Stimuli ◽  
Facial Electromyography ◽  
Bodily Feelings ◽  
Action Verbs

Observing and producing a smile activate the very same facial muscles. In Experiment 1, we predicted and found that verbal stimuli (action verbs) that refer to emotional expressions elicit the same facial muscle activity (facial electromyography) as visual stimuli do. These results are evidence that language referring to facial muscular activity is not amodal, as traditionally assumed, but is instead bodily grounded. These findings were extended in Experiment 2, in which subliminally presented verbal stimuli were shown to drive muscle activation and to shape judgments, but not when muscle activation was blocked. These experiments provide an important bridge between research on the neurobiological basis of language and related behavioral research. The implications of these findings for theories of language and other domains of cognitive psychology (e.g., priming) are discussed.

DNA-fragmentation and expression of apoptosis-related proteins in experimentally denervated and reinnervated rat facial muscle

1997 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 141-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. S. Tews ◽  
H. H. Goebel ◽  
I. Schneider ◽  
A. Gunkel ◽  
E. Stennert ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dna Fragmentation ◽  
Facial Muscle ◽  
Related Proteins

Estimating the Valence of Single Stimuli: A New Variant of the Affective Simon Task

2003 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 86-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Voß ◽  
Klaus Rothermund ◽  
Dirk Wentura
Keyword(s):  
Simon Task ◽  
Emotional Expressions ◽  
Evaluation Task ◽  
New Variant ◽  
Game Context

Abstract. In this article, a modified variant of the Affective Simon Task (AST; De Houwer & Eelen, 1998 ) is presented as a measure of implicit evaluations of single stimuli. In the AST, the words “good” or “bad” have to be given as responses depending on the color of the stimuli. The AST was combined with an evaluation task to increase the salience of the valence of the presented stimuli. Experiment 1 investigated evaluations of schematic faces showing emotional expressions. In Experiment 2 we measured the valence of artificial stimuli that acquired valence in a game context during the experiment. Both experiments confirm the validity of the modified AST. The results also revealed a dissociation between explicit and implicit evaluations.

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