Context And Personality Key In Understanding Responses To Emotional Facial Expressions
Wednesday, August 6, 2008 - 23:28
in Psychology & Sociology
It is well-appreciated that facial expressions play a major role in nonverbal social communication among humans and other primates, because faces provide rapid access to information about the identity and the internal states and intentions of others. New data now suggests that both the social context of a person's facial expression and certain facets of the viewer's personality could affect how our brain interprets the social meaning of someone else's smile or frown.
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