… to interpret a coarse, elemental presentation of an ambiguous surprised facial expression (ie,
… expression (ie, HSF information). These data are consistent with the notion that a negative …

… how anxiety influences interpretation of ambiguous facial expressions of emotion. … of
contextual cues on interpretation. Participants saw ambiguous facial expressions. Simultaneously, …

… stimuli (eg Neta, Norris, & Whalen, 2009), but the present study goes further by suggesting
that facial expressions can actively influence the interpretation of stimuli as complex as verbal …

… levels of social anxiety to interpret ambiguous facial expressions in a threatening manner. …
anxious individuals endorsed threatening interpretations for ambiguous social information. …

… As the focus of the present research is on the interpretation of ambiguous facial expressions
and anxiety, only significant effects involving anxiety are discussed. Responses to the faces …

… to extend the view that socially anxious people may be especially sensitive to threat-related
eyes in ambiguous facial expressions with a smile. Richards et al. (Citation2002) morphed …

… classification and interpretation of facial emotions … ambiguous faces. Thus, we performed
a pilot study which examined the emotion classification of seven ambiguous facial expressions …

… Our results imply that facial expressions of emotions are inherently ambiguous, not in the …
This ambiguity is structured: it is constrained by similarity. When facial expressions are very …

… Such studies commonly find that neutral and ambiguous facial expressions are interpreted
more negatively by aggressive individuals than by others, a pattern consistent with the …

… proportions) and face image quality (… ambiguous facial expressions. We chose to morph
happiness-anger rather than other expression combinations because interpreting ambiguous …