Showing posts with label faces. Show all posts
Showing posts with label faces. Show all posts
Monday, March 25, 2024

If you want to remember a landscape be sure to include a human....

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Fascinating observations by Jimenez et al.   on our inherent human drive to understand our vastly social world...(and in the same issue of P...
Friday, February 18, 2022

Illusory faces are more likely to be perceived as male than female

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Interesting observations from Wardle et al. : Despite our fluency in reading human faces, sometimes we mistakenly perceive illusory faces ...
Friday, November 05, 2021

Variability, not stereotypical expressions, in facial portraying of emotional states.

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Barrett and collaborators use a novel method to offer more evidence against reliable mapping between certain emotional states and facial mu...
Wednesday, December 02, 2020

Emotions are constructed, and are not universal.

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This post continues with clips, paraphrase, and editing of Barrett’s book " How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain "...
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Friday, October 16, 2020

Want to feel better? Make a fake smile by holding a pencil in your teeth.

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Neat work by Marmolejo-Ramos et al in Experimental Psychology , Research subjects who forced their facial muscles to replicate the movement...
Wednesday, August 28, 2019

Interindividual variability - rather than universality - in facial-emotion perception.

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Brooks et al. do experiments suggesting that the representational structure of emotion expressions in visual face-processing regions may be...
Friday, July 26, 2019

Deindividuation of outgroup faces occurs at the earliest stages of visual perception.

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From Hughes et al : A hallmark of intergroup biases is the tendency to individuate members of one’s own group but process members of other ...
Friday, February 08, 2019

Flash judgement based on appearance.

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I want to point to two articles on how we make rapid judgements based on first impressions. Torodov's essay in aeon is a fascinating ...
Tuesday, October 23, 2018

An average person can recognize 5,000 faces.

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Jenkins et al. recruited 25 undergraduate or postgraduate students at the University of Glasgow and the University of Aberdeen (15 female, ...
Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Seeing what you feel - unconscious affect drives perception

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Siegle et al. provide yet another example of how it is impossible to separate emotions from cognition and perception: Affective realism, t...
Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Different kinds of smiles elicit different physiological responses

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Martin et al. show that our stress chemistry (HPA, or hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis) is augmented or dampened by different kinds of s...
Monday, January 15, 2018

How to detect that someone is sick.

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Alexsson et al. do a study suggesting that you should look first for droopy eyelids and corners of the mouth, then also check for pale skin...
Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Smiles of reward, affiliation, and dominance.

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From Martin et al. : Abstract The human smile is highly variable in both its form and the social contexts in which it is displayed. A s...
Tuesday, August 08, 2017

Smiles for love, sympathy, and war.

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From Rychlowska et al. : A smile is the most frequent facial expression, but not all smiles are equal. A social-functional account holds ...
Tuesday, July 04, 2017

The human fetus engages face like stimuli.

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Reid et al. are able to show that we prefer face-like stimuli even in utero: Highlights •The third trimester human fetus looks toward ...
Friday, June 09, 2017

Cracking the brain's code for facial identity.

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Chang and Tsao appear to have figured out how facial identity is represented in the brain: Highlights •Facial images can be linearly r...
Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Reading what the mind thinks from how the eye sees.

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Expressive eye widening (as in fear) and eye narrowing (as in disgust) are associated with opposing optical consequences and serve opposing ...
Wednesday, March 08, 2017

We look like our names.

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An interesting bit from Zwebner et al. : Research demonstrates that facial appearance affects social perceptions. The current research in...
Monday, January 16, 2017

Positivity in older adults is more related to cognitive decline than to emotion regulation.

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It is commonly supposed that the more positive outlook characteristic of older people is due to their ability to regulate their emotions mor...
Friday, November 18, 2016

Are your emotions 'Black and White' or 'Shades of Gray'? - Brain correlates.

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Satpute et al. show that how we think about emotion shapes our perception and neural representation of emotion. They asked subjects to judg...