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Published in: Journal of Nonverbal Behavior 4/2014

01-12-2014 | Original Paper

Recognition of Facial Expressions of Emotion is Related to their Frequency in Everyday Life

Authors: Manuel G. Calvo, Aida Gutiérrez-García, Andrés Fernández-Martín, Lauri Nummenmaa

Published in: Journal of Nonverbal Behavior | Issue 4/2014

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Abstract

Cross-cultural and laboratory research indicates that some facial expressions of emotion are recognized more accurately and faster than others. We assessed the hypothesis that such differences depend on the frequency with which each expression occurs in social encounters. Thirty observers recorded how often they saw different facial expressions during natural conditions in their daily life. For a total of 90 days (3 days per observer), 2,462 samples of seen expressions were collected. Among the basic expressions, happy faces were observed most frequently (31 %), followed by surprised (11.3 %), sad (9.3 %), angry (8.7 %), disgusted (7.2 %), and fearful faces, which were the least frequent (3.4 %). A significant amount (29 %) of non-basic emotional expressions (e.g., pride or shame) were also observed. We correlated our frequency data with recognition accuracy and response latency data from prior studies. In support of the hypothesis, significant correlations (generally, above .70) emerged, with recognition accuracy increasing and latency decreasing as a function of frequency. We conclude that the efficiency of facial emotion recognition is modulated by familiarity of the expressions.

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In fact, dynamic expressions are recognized more easily and accurately than static expressions (Recio et al. 2013), and expressive facial movement benefits multiple aspects of emotion recognition (Krumhuber et al. 2013), at least in laboratory conditions. Also, the emotions in facial expressions are made meaningful in context (Hassin et al. 2013), which would attune perceivers to distinctions between expressions (Parkinson 2013). Nevertheless, the empathic accuracy literature (see Flury and Ickes 2001; Rollings et al. 2011) suggests that natural or spontaneous expressions in real-life situations or in vivo tasks (even though dynamic and contextualized) might be more difficult to recognize than static and isolated prototypical expressions.
 
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Often, observers had to interact with the expresser. In such cases, the recording had to be made off-line, i.e., delayed until the end of the interaction. It is possible that, in those conditions, the recording accuracy suffered, due to reliance on memory. We do not know whether the off-line recording affected all the expressions similarly. No observer, however, mentioned this type of difficulty in the interview with the researchers at the end of the observation period. In addition, a strict dichotomy between interactive and non-interactive contexts, and the corresponding comparisons to address this issue, could not be made because of the great variability of situations.
 
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To disentangle these two possibilities (i.e., that either the actual occurrence or rather the perceived noticeability can account for the observed frequencies), an experimental approach should manipulate the objective frequency of expressions while keeping the recognition demands constant; or, alternatively, the easiness of recognition should be varied while keeping the frequency constant. However, although this approach could possibly be implemented under laboratory conditions, it would denaturize the real experience people gather from their normal social life.
 
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Metadata
Title
Recognition of Facial Expressions of Emotion is Related to their Frequency in Everyday Life
Authors
Manuel G. Calvo
Aida Gutiérrez-García
Andrés Fernández-Martín
Lauri Nummenmaa
Publication date
01-12-2014
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Journal of Nonverbal Behavior / Issue 4/2014
Print ISSN: 0191-5886
Electronic ISSN: 1573-3653
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-014-0191-3

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