Current theories of emotion perception posit that basic facial expressions signal
categorically discrete emotions or affective dimensions of valence and arousal. In both …

Highlights•Emotion perception research relies heavily on stereotypical decontextualized
posed faces.•Real-life facial expressions are highly ambiguous and thus rely on contextual …

With a few yet increasing number of exceptions, the cognitive sciences enthusiastically
endorsed the idea that there are basic facial expressions of emotions that are created by …

Perception and emotion interact, as is borne out by studies of how people recognize
emotion from facial expressions. Psychological and neurological research has elucidated …

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 …

Facial expressions of emotion involve a physical component of morphological changes in a
face and an affective component conveying information about the expresser's internal …

Facial expressions are key to social interactions and to assessment of potential danger in
various situations. Therefore, our brains must be able to recognize facial expressions when …

Most past research on emotion recognition has used photographs of posed expressions
intended to depict the apex of the emotional display. Although these studies have provided …

Several studies investigated the role of featural and configural information when processing
facial identity. A lot less is known about their contribution to emotion recognition. In this …

Recent theoretical accounts argue that conceptual knowledge dynamically interacts with
processing of facial cues, fundamentally influencing visual perception of social and emotion …