Emotion elicitation using facial expression images: A perspective from research on facial expression recognition and person perception

When people see a facial expression displayed by another individual, they experience changes in multiple components of emotion, such as appraisals, action tendencies, physiological and motor responses, subjective feelings. Facial expressions can thus be regarded emotion-eliciting stimuli. It has often been assumed that the kind emotion evoked certain is same one conveyed expression: e.g., happiness thought to induce its perceiver. However, “emotion assimilation” does not always occur, observing give rise different emotions under conditions. This complexity stems from facts processing type person perception, perception general subject modulation various factors related perceiver, target (facial expression), perceiver×target interaction, context. Researchers have take into account this variability when predicting discussing outcomes induction exposure expressions.