Robust anger: Recognition of deteriorated dynamic bodily emotion expressions

Robust anger: recognition of deteriorated dynamic bodily emotion expressions.

In two studies, the robustness of anger recognition of bodily expressions is tested. In the first study, video recordings of an actor expressing four distinct emotions (anger, despair, fear, and joy) were structurally manipulated as to image impairment and body segmentation. The results show that anger recognition is more robust than other emotions to image impairment and to body segmentation. ...

Real-Time Emotion Recognition from Natural Bodily Expressions in Child-Robot Interaction

Emotion perception and interpretation is one of the key desired capabilities of assistive robots, which could largely enhance the quality and naturalness in human-robot interaction. According to psychological studies, bodily communication has an important role in human social behaviours. However, it is very challenging to model such affective bodily expressions, especially in a naturalistic set...

Running Head: BODILY EXPRESSION OF EMOTION In Press, Emotion Review Bodily communication of emotion: Evidence for extra-facial behavioral expressions and available coding systems

Anger superiority effect: The importance of dynamic emotional facial expressions

A rapid response to a threatening face in a crowd is important to successfully interact in social environments. Visual search tasks have been employed to determine whether there is a processing advantage for detecting an angry face in a crowd, compared to a happy face. The empirical findings supporting the ‘‘anger superiority effect’’ (ASE), however, have been criticized on the basis of possibl...

Neuropsychosocial Factors in Emotion Recognition: Facial Expressions

It has often been said that the eyes are the “window to the soul.” This statement may be carried to a logical assumption that not only the eyes but the entire face may reflect the “hidden” emotions of the individual. With this assumption in mind, this paper will describe the various theories subsumed within the rubric of emotion recognition from the fields of social psychology and human neurops...