Recognizing Emotions through Facial Expressions: A Largescale Experimental Study

• Autor(a) principal: Dores, Artemisa Rocha
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Barbosa, Fernando, Queirós, Cristina, Carvalho, Irene P., Griffiths, Mark D.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/16623
• topic: Emotions; Emotion recognition; Facial expressions; RaFD; Gender differences

Experimental research examining emotional processes is typically based on the observation of images with affective content, including facial expressions. Future studies will benefit from databases with emotion-inducing stimuli in which characteristics of the stimuli potentially influencing results can be controlled. This study presents Portuguese normative data for the identification of seven facial expressions of emotions (plus a neutral face), on the Radboud Faces Database (RaFD). The effect of participants’ gender and models’ sex on emotion recognition was also examined. Participants (N = 1249) were exposed to 312 pictures of white adults displaying emotional and neutral faces with a frontal gaze.