The Science of Facial Expression

by Josï-Miguel Fernïndez-Dols, James A. Russell

Overview

The importance of facial expressions has led to a steadily growing body of empirical findings and theoretical analyses. Every decade has seen work that extends or challenges previous thinking on facial expression. The Science of Facial Expression provides an updated review of the current psychology of facial expression . This book summarizes current conclusions and conceptual frameworks from leading figures who have shaped the field in their various subfields, and will therefore be of interest to practitioners, students, and researchers of emotion in cognitive psychology, neuroscience, biology, anthropology, linguistics, affective computing, and homeland security.

Organized in eleven thematic sections, The Science of Facial Expression offers a broad perspective of the "geography" of the science of facial expression. It reviews the scientific history of emotion perception and the evolutionary origins and functions of facial expression. It includes an updated compilation on the great debate around Basic Emotion Theory versus Behavioral Ecology and Psychological constructionism. The developmental psychology and social psychology of facial expressions is explored in the role of facial expressions in child development, social interactions, and culture. The book also covers appraisal theory, concepts, neural and behavioral processes, and lesser-known facial behaviors such as yawing, vocal crying, and vomiting. In addition, the book reflects that research on the "expression of emotion" is moving towards a significance of context in the production and interpretation of facial expression The authors expose various fundamental questions and controversies yet to be resolved, but in doing so, open many sources of inspiration to pursue in the scientific study of facial expression.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780190613501
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	05/15/2017
Series:	Social Cognition and Social Neuroscience
Pages:	552
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.40(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

José-Miguel Fernández-Dols is Professor of Psychology at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. His current research, developed in the framework of the Affective Sciences Lab, focuses on spontaneous expressions of emotion, as well as and everyday conceptions of emotion in culture and its interaction with social norms and motives.

James A. Russell is Professor of Psychology at Boston College. His current research integrates various strands of human emotion research into a broad framework called the psychological construction of emotion.

They have edited two books together: The Psychology of Facial Expression (1997) and Everyday Conceptions of Emotion (1995).

Table of Contents

Contributors

Part I: Introduction

Chapter 1: Introduction
José-Miguel Fernández-Dols and James A. Russell

Chapter 2: Facing the Past: A history of the face in psychological research on emotion perception
Maria Gendron and Lisa Feldman-Barrett

Part II: The Great Debate: The Facial Expression Program

Chapter 3: Facial Expressions
Paul Ekman

Chapter 4: Understanding Multimodal Emotional Expressions: Recent Advances in Basic Emotion Theory
Dacher Keltner and Daniel T. Cordaro

Chapter 5: The Behavioral Ecology View of Facial Displays, 25 Years Later
Alan J. Fridlund

Chapter 6: Toward a Broader Perspective on Facial Expressions: Moving on from Basic Emotion Theory
James A. Russell

Chapter 7: Coherence between Emotions and Facial Expressions: A Research Synthesis
Juan I. Duran, Rainer Reisenzein, and José-Miguel Fernández-Dols

Part III: Evolution

Chapter 8: Evolution of facial musculature
Rui Diogo and Sharlene E. Santana

Chapter 9: The faces monkeys make
Eliza Bliss-Moreau and Gilda Moadab

Chapter 10: Form and function in facial expressive behavior
Daniel H. Lee and Adam K. Anderson

Part IV: Unexplored Signals

Chapter 11: Beyond the Smile: Non-Traditional Facial, Emotional, and Social Behaviors
Robert R. Provine

Chapter 12: The communicative and social functions of human crying
Asmir Gracanin, Lauren M. Bylsma, and Ad J. J. M. Vingerhoets

Part V: Neural Processes

Chapter 13: Neural and Behavioral Responses to Ambiguous Facial Expressions of Emotion
Paul J. Whalen, Maital Neta, M. Justin Kim, Alison M. Mattek, F.C. Davis, James M. Taylor and Samantha Chavez

Chapter 14: Using Facial Expressions to Probe Brain Circuitry Associated with Anxiety and Depression
Johnna R. Swartz, Lisa M. Shin, Brenda Lee, and Ahmad R. Hariri

Part VI: Individual Development

Chapter 15: Spontaneously produced facial expressions in infants and children
Linda A. Camras, Vanessa L. Castro, Amy G. Halberstadt, and Michael M. Shuster

Chapter 16: The Development of Emotion Recognition: The Broad-to-differentiated Hypothesis
Sherri C. Widen

Part VII: Social Perception

Chapter 17: A Social Vision Account of Facial Expression Perception
Reginald B. Adams, Jr., Daniel N. Albohn, and Kestutis Kveraga

Chapter 18: Inherently Ambiguous: An argument for contextualized emotion perception
Hillel Aviezer and Ran Hassin

Part VIII: Appraisal

Chapter 19: Facial expression is driven by appraisal and generates appraisal inference
Klaus Scherer, Marcello Mortillaro, and Marc Mehu

Chapter 20: The social signal value of emotions: The role of contextual factors in social inferences drawn from emotion displays
Ursula Hess and Shlomo Hareli

Part IX: Concepts

Chapter 21: Embodied Simulation in Decoding Facial Expression
Paula M. Niedenthal, Adrienne Wood, Magdalena Rychlowska, and Sebastian Korb

Chapter 22: Language and emotion: Hypotheses on the constructed nature of emotion perception
Cameron M. Doyle and Kristen A. Lindquist

Chapter X: Social Interaction

Chapter 23: Interpersonal Effects and Functions of Facial Activity
Brian Parkinson

Chapter 24: Natural Facial Expression: A View from Psychological Constructionism and Pragmatics
José-Miguel Fernández-Dols

Part XI: Culture

Chapter 25: Emotional dialects in the language of emotion
Hillary Anger Elfenbein

Chapter 26: Facial Expressions and Emotions in Indigenous Societies
Carlos Crivelli and Maria Gendron

Index

Editorial Reviews

"Let's face it. This is a remarkable collection of essays that will define the Science of Facial Expression for years to come."
—Joseph LeDoux, author of Anxious: Using the Brain to Understand and Treat Fear and Anxiety

"This volume is a rarity. It is one of the few volumes that deserves a place in the library of every student or scholar of emotion. . . . This volume deals with both sides of a crucial issue in the field, and does so thoroughly, with impressive breadth, and concise position statements. It is a treat to read."
—Joseph J. Campos, PhD, University of California, Berkeley, Co-Founder, International Society for Research on Emotions

"The Science of Facial Expression is a valiant attempt to bring the players, the different theoretical points of view, and their empirical evidence to the table to provide the reader with a detailed and sophisticated discussion of the current state-of-the-art. In this sense, this volume is essential for anyone who is interested in facial activity and affective processes whether for theoretical reasons, or for specific applications. A milestone."
—Arvid Kappas, PhD, Dean and Professor of Psychology, Jacobs University Bremen

"This book is useful not only to practitioners and researchers, but also to anyone curious to learn about facial expressions. It has been written in a way that is accessible to all...a pioneering work."
—BizIndia

"What The Science of Facial Expressions does extremely well is give the reader grounding in the history of the field and insight into the most recent and interesting theoretical developments. The fact that it includes essays written by the most influential theorists in the field means that the book hangs together, better than collections of essays often do, because the individual authors frequently reference each other's work. I highly recommend this book for students and researchers studying facial expression science." —PsycCRITIQUES

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