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Victory Or Defeat? Emotions Aren't All In The Face | Essentials

Victory Or Defeat? Emotions Aren't All In The Face

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Enlarge Hillel Aviezer/The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Can You Tell Emotion From Faces Alone? A new study suggests that when people evaluated just facial expressions — without cues from the rest of the body — they couldn't tell if the face was showing a positive or negative emotion. Hillel Aviezer/The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Can You Tell Emotion From Faces Alone? A new study suggests that when people evaluated just facial expressions — without cues from the rest of the body — they couldn't tell if the face was showing a positive or negative emotion. Photos of athletes in their moment of victory or defeat usually show faces contorted with intense emotion. But a new study suggests that people actually don't use those kinds of extreme facial expressions to judge how a person is feeling. Instead, surprisingly, people rely on body cues.

People:

Hillel Aviezer

Overall Sentiment: -0.0797302

Relevance: 0.853585

SentimentQuote
0.109096"When I look at a sports magazine, and I see the full picture of a person winning a point, and he has his full gesture, the whole picture makes perfect sense to me," says Aviezer.
0.129783"When I look at a sports magazine, and I see the full picture of a person winning a point, and he has his full gesture, the whole picture makes perfect sense to me," says Aviezer. "The face looks like a victorious face, and the body looks victorious; everything together seems to make perfect sense."
0"This was really a very striking finding," says Aviezer.
-0.126971"And when people saw the body alone, they easily knew if this was a positive or negative emotion," explains Aviezer.
0"When in fact it's an illusion," says Aviezer.
-0.256906"When in fact it's an illusion," says Aviezer. "They have this false idea of information in the face when really it's coming from the body."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 6
  • Aggregate Sentiment: -0.144998
  • Mean: -0.024166333333333
  • Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

Lisa Feldman Barrett

Overall Sentiment: 0.252267

Relevance: 0.285836

SentimentQuote
0.110093"I think that many people will find this very surprising," says Lisa Feldman Barrett, ...
0"When you and I talk to each other and we look at each other, we're really looking at each other's faces. That's where our attention is. And so the assumption has been that that's where all the information is, too," says Barrett.
0.102062"When you and I talk to each other and we look at each other, we're really looking at each other's faces. That's where our attention is. And so the assumption has been that that's where all the information is, too," says Barrett. "But these studies show very clearly that that's not the case."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 3
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.212155
  • Mean: 0.070718333333333
  • Standard Deviation: 1

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Additional Info:

Organization: University of Jerusalem

Overall Sentiment: 0.30933

Relevance: 0.398404

Sport: tennis

Overall Sentiment: -0.0303692

Relevance: 0.565345

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