Faces

Question 1

What is the baby-faced adults experiment (McArthur & Apatow, 1983)

Answer 1

• presented faces to ppts with different features
• people judged baby faces (high forehead, low eyes)as more honest, warmer, more naïve , more submissive
• facial features influence impressions

Question 2

What did the meta-analysis of correlations between emotion and facial activity show?

Answer 2

• reviewed every study based on situational emotional reactions across countries
• generally positive correlation between studies although it is a small average

Question 3

What does Ekman’s 1972 Neocultural Theory Entail?

Answer 3

• innate neural factors explain faces emotion but sometimes cultural factors impact this
• socially it is not always appropriate to show emotion > conventions differ between cultures

Question 4

Schachter & Singer (1962) argued people recognize the particular emotion they are experiencing by

Answer 4

Trying to work out the reasons for arousal

Question 5

Motive communication approach- Fridlund 1994

Answer 5

• people facial expressions express how they are about to behave and not what they are feel at the time
• facial expressions designed for comunicación and social motives
• specifically oriented to audiences
• no 1:1 correspóndanse between faces and emotion

Question 6

Landis 1924 spontaneous expression

Answer 6

• photographed 25 faces while performing 17 different activities
• saw no consistent relationship between facial expression and situation/emotion