Face in Crowd Perception
These
study were conducted by Gernot Horstmann and his colleagues at Bielefeld
Univerversity, Germany. They asked their subjects to look into a crowed of
neutral faces and find a happy or sad face. They then measured how long it took
them to find the face. They found that when the emotion was shown with a closed
mouth, it took the participants longer to find and when it was signaled with
and open mouth, they found it quicker. This experiement disproves the previous
thought that people can spot an angry face faster, but rather when teeth are
visible.
Info take from: A Toothy Grin or Angry Snarl Makes It Easy to Stand out in a Crowd: Visible Teeth Are Key
Link: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120614182554.htm
Facial Expressions Across Cultures
This
study was conducted by Rachel E. Jack of The University of Glasgow. What she
did was record the different eye movements of 13 Western Caucasians and 13 East
Asians while the looked at pictures with emotionally expressive faces. They
would have to put the faces into different categories: Happy, Sad, surprised,
fearful, disgusted, angry or neutral. These faces were designed to be
standardized "such that each expression displayed a specific combination
of facial muscles typically associated with each feeling of emotion" (Cell
Press). What they found was that Asians mostly looked at the eyes, almost
ignoring the mouth, and determined the expression from there, while
Caucasians looked at the whole face to determine the emotion. Its important to understand the different way in which cultures understand emotions in our broadening world with many different diverse people.
Info Taken from: Perception of Facial Expressions Differs Across Cultures
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110901105510.htm
