What Are Emotion Expressions For?

By Azim Shariff, Jessica L. Tracy. 2011

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

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Survey on RGB, 3D, Thermal, and Multimodal Approaches for Facial Expression Recognition: History, Trends, and Affect-related Applications (2016, background): “Gaming experience can also be improved by adapting difﬁculty, music, characters or mission according to the player’s emotional responses [45], [46], [47].”
Human Emotions: An Evolutionary Psychological Perspective (2016, background): “By contrast, fearinduced sweaty palms or brow may be visible by-products of physiological arousal that did not evolve to transmit information (e.g., Bradbury & Veherncamp, 1998; Maynard Smith & Harper, 2003, Shariff & Tracy, 2011).”
The Interpersonal Dynamics of Emotion: Toward an Integrative Theory of Emotions as Social Information (2018, background): “…others, he was convinced that emotional expressions reveal important information about the expresser and thus play a role in social communication.1 1 This nuance relates to the distinction that is made in evolutionary biology between signals and cues (see Shariff & Tracy, 2011, for a discussion).”
What’s in a Word? Language Constructs Emotion Perception (2013, methodology): “The commonsense view that emotion perception is automatically given by information on the face is formalized in the psychologi cal literature as the basic emotion approach (for recent reviews, see Ekman & Cordaro, 2011; Izard, 2011; Shariff & Tracy, 2011).”
The nonverbal communication of emotions (2015, background): “As a result, emotion expressions became exaggerated into the highly recognizable and prototypical forms we observe them in today (see [22 ,24]), which function to signal important information to observers.”
How to Do Things with Emotional Expressions: The Theory of Affective Pragmatics (2017, background): “Darwin may have underestimated the extent to which emotional expressions continue to fulfill practical functions in current environments (Shariff & Tracy, 2011).”
Psychological Construction: The Darwinian Approach to the Science of Emotion (2013, background): “It is ironic that basic emotion approaches, as an example of the typological/faculty/natural kinds approach to emotion, claim Darwin as its inspiration (e.g., Shariff & Tracy, 2011).”
Was Darwin Wrong About Emotional Expressions? (2011, methodology): “Is fear “a cascade of responses including heavier breathing, the redistribution of blood to limb muscles to prepare for rapid movement” (Shariff & Tracy, 2011, p. 396), even though a meta-analytic summary of the psychophysiological literature does not bear this out (Cacioppo et al., 2000), or is…”
Children’s Interpretation of Facial Expressions: The Long Path from Valence-Based to Specific Discrete Categories (2013, background): “On this theory, facial expressions are assumed to have evolved to signal specific emotions and to be universally, easily, and perhaps innately recognized (Izard, 1994; Shariff & Tracy, 2011).”
An Evolutionary Approach to Understanding Distinct Emotions (2014, background): “But, recent studies suggest that additional functional knowledge is also acquired, and that perceivers show an automatic tendency to respond to others’ displays with their own functional behavior (see Shariff & Tracy, 2011, for a review).”