Leveraging facial expressions and contextual information to investigate opaque representations of emotions.
© 2019 American Psychological Association. Observers attribute emotions to others relying on multiple cues, including facial expressions and information about the situation. Recent research has used Bayesian models to study how these cues are integrated. Existing studies have used a variety of tasks...
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| author | Anzellotti, Stefano Houlihan, Sean Dae Liburd, Samuel Saxe, Rebecca |
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| description | © 2019 American Psychological Association. Observers attribute emotions to others relying on multiple cues, including facial expressions and information about the situation. Recent research has used Bayesian models to study how these cues are integrated. Existing studies have used a variety of tasks to probe emotion inferences, but limited attention has been devoted to the possibility that different decision processes might be involved depending on the task. If this is the case, understanding emotion representations might require understanding the decision processes through which they give rise to judgments. This article 1) shows that the different tasks that have been used in the literature yield very different results, 2) proposes an account of the decision processes involved that explain the differences, and 3) tests novel predictions of this account. The results offer new insights into how emotions are represented, and more broadly demonstrate the importance of taking decision processes into account in Bayesian models of cognition. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1333332023-02-23T20:18:18Z Leveraging facial expressions and contextual information to investigate opaque representations of emotions. Anzellotti, Stefano Houlihan, Sean Dae Liburd, Samuel Saxe, Rebecca Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences © 2019 American Psychological Association. Observers attribute emotions to others relying on multiple cues, including facial expressions and information about the situation. Recent research has used Bayesian models to study how these cues are integrated. Existing studies have used a variety of tasks to probe emotion inferences, but limited attention has been devoted to the possibility that different decision processes might be involved depending on the task. If this is the case, understanding emotion representations might require understanding the decision processes through which they give rise to judgments. This article 1) shows that the different tasks that have been used in the literature yield very different results, 2) proposes an account of the decision processes involved that explain the differences, and 3) tests novel predictions of this account. The results offer new insights into how emotions are represented, and more broadly demonstrate the importance of taking decision processes into account in Bayesian models of cognition. 2021-10-27T19:52:11Z 2021-10-27T19:52:11Z 2019 2021-04-15T15:33:45Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/133333 en 10.1037/EMO0000685 Emotion Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf American Psychological Association (APA) MIT web domain |
| spellingShingle | Anzellotti, Stefano Houlihan, Sean Dae Liburd, Samuel Saxe, Rebecca Leveraging facial expressions and contextual information to investigate opaque representations of emotions. |
| title | Leveraging facial expressions and contextual information to investigate opaque representations of emotions. |
| title_full | Leveraging facial expressions and contextual information to investigate opaque representations of emotions. |
| title_fullStr | Leveraging facial expressions and contextual information to investigate opaque representations of emotions. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Leveraging facial expressions and contextual information to investigate opaque representations of emotions. |
| title_short | Leveraging facial expressions and contextual information to investigate opaque representations of emotions. |
| title_sort | leveraging facial expressions and contextual information to investigate opaque representations of emotions |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/133333 |
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