Unobservable facial actions and emotion
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Advances in facial electromyography have enabled researchers to monitor previously indeterminable responses relating emotion to facial expression. It has been previously proven that facial electromyographic activity not only differs as a function of the intensity, valence, and sociality of emotional stimuli but is slightly different in deliberately manipulated and spontaneous manifestations of emotion as well. The codevelopment of quantitative models of the expressive system and theories of the dynamics of emotion is expected to provide a more exhaustive study on emotions and facial expression.
Publication Name: Psychological Science
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0956-7976
Year: 1992
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Facial expressions of emotion: new findings, new questions
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Emotion theorists have hypothesized that facial expressions corresponding to different emotional states are the same in several cultures. Limited research has spurred more questions regarding the existence of more than one expression for each emotion, although some evidence indicates the universality of facial expressions for interest, contempt, guilt and shame. Additional research has shown that voluntary facial muscular actions can produce involuntary changes in the autonomic nervous system and evoke the corresponding emotion.
Publication Name: Psychological Science
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0956-7976
Year: 1992
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A critical test of the waist-to-hip-ratio hypothesis of female physical attractiveness
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Research was conducted to examine the waist-to-hip-ratio hypothesis of female physical attractiveness. Participants consisting of 146 undergraduate students, 53 men and 83 women, with ages averaging 18 years, were asked to rank-order individually four sets of line drawings according to ability to bear children and attractiveness. Results indicate that weight and hip size are critical factors in determining fecundity and attractiveness.
Publication Name: Psychological Science
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0956-7976
Year: 1998
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