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Brief Report: Useful Information for Face Perception Is Described with FACS

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When we perceive the emotions of other people, we extract much information from the face. The present experiment used FACS (Facial Action Coding System), which is an instrument that measures the magnitude of facial action from a neutral face to a changed, emotional face. Japanese undergraduates judged the emotion in pictures of 66 static Japanese male faces (11 static pictures for each of six basic expressions: happiness, surprise, fear, anger, sadness, and disgust), ranging from neutral faces to maximally expressed emotions. The stimuli had previously been scored with FACS and were presented in random order. A high correlation between the subjects' judgments of facial expressions and the FACS scores was found.

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  1. Department of Sociology, Kansai University, Japan

    Kimihiro Suzuki & Kenichi Naitoh

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Suzuki, K., Naitoh, K. Brief Report: Useful Information for Face Perception Is Described with FACS. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior 27, 43–55 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1023666107152

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