Emotion processing, including automatic facial mimicry, plays an important role in social reciprocity. Disruptions in these processes have implications for individuals with impaired social functioning, such as autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). Past research has demonstrated that ASDs are impaired in the recognition of briefly presented emotions and display atypical mimicry of emotions presented...

Four experiments demonstrated implicit self-esteem compensation (ISEC) in response to threats involving gender identity (Experiment 1), implicit racism (Experiment 2), and social rejection (Experiments 3-4). Under conditions in which people might be expected to suffer a blow to self-worth, they instead showed high scores on 2 implicit self-esteem measures. There was no comparable effect on expl...

Shame has been described as a central emotion in narcissistic personality disorder (NPD). However, there is a dearth of empirical data on shame in NPD. Patients with NPD (N=28), non-clinical controls (N=34) and individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD, N=31) completed self-report measures of state shame, shame-proneness, and guilt-proneness. Furthermore, the Implicit Association Te...

This paper proposes an emotion clustering procedure for emotion detection in infants’ cries. Our clustering procedure is performed using the results of subjective opinion tests regarding the emotions expressed in infants’ cries. Through the procedure, we obtain a tree data structure of emotion clusters that are generated by the progressive merging of emotions. Emotion merging is carried out on ...

Capturing user’s emotional state is an emerging way for implicit relevance feedback in information retrieval (IR). Recently, EEGbased emotion recognition has drawn increasing attention. However, a key challenge is effective learning of useful features from EEG signals. In this paper, we present our on-going work on using Deep Belief Network (DBN) to automatically extract highlevel features from...

The affective touch hypothesis posits a class of unmyelinated, low threshold mechanoreceptors form distinct channel signaling the dimension touch. preferred stimulus these CT afferents is force and velocity, skin temperature stroke, typical caress. A growing body research has utilized psychophysiological techniques to study implicit effects targeted Here we consider that literature in context a...

In this paper, we present a detection approach and an ‘open-set’ detection evaluation methodology for automatic emotion recognition in speech. The traditional classification approach does not seem to be suitable and flexible enough for typical emotion recognition tasks. For example, classification does not have an appropriate way to cope with ‘new’ emotions from outside the training database th...