2010/02/26 by Lisa Feldman Barrett, Elizabeth A. Kensinger · 1 citation
Neuroscience · Psychology · #Face Recognition and Perception #Multisensory perception and integration #Categorization, perception, and language #Psychology #Facial expression #Perception #Context (archaeology) #Emotion perception #Expression (computer science) #Face (sociological concept) #Face perception #Cognitive psychology #Isolation (microbiology) #Emotion classification #Emotional expression #Affective science #Social psychology #Communication #Neuroscience #Linguistics #Computer science
paper · doi:10.1177/0956797610363547
openalex publication_date 2010/02/26 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/02
In the present study, we investigated whether context is routinely encoded during emotion perception. For the first time, we show that people remember the context more often when asked to label an emotion in a facial expression than when asked to judge the expression's simple affective significance (which can be done on the basis of the structural features of the face alone). Our findings are consistent with an emerging literature showing that facial muscle actions (i.e., structural features of the face), when viewed in isolation, might be insufficient for perceiving emotion.