People make trait inferences based on facial appearance despite little evidence that these
inferences accurately reflect personality. The authors tested the hypothesis that these …

Evidence does not support the claim that observers universally recognize basic emotions
from signals on the face. The percentage of observers who matched the face with the …

Face recognition has been assumed to be independent of facial expression. We used
familiar and unfamiliar faces that were morphed from a happy to an angry expression within …

Perception of facial expressions of emotion is generally assumed to correspond to
underlying muscle movement. However, it is often observed that some individuals have …

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 …

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

Although age-related declines in facial expression recognition are well documented,
previous research has relied mostly on isolated faces devoid of context. The authors …

We report two studies which attempt to explain why some researchers found that neutral
faces determine judgments of recognition as strongly as expressions of basic emotion, even …

Much is known on how facial expressions of emotion are produced, including which
individual muscles are most active in each expression. Yet, little is known on how this …

In cognitive science and neuroscience, there have been two leading models describing how
humans perceive and classify facial expressions of emotion—the continuous and the …