Emotional Expressions Reconsidered: Challenges to Inferring Emotion From Human Facial Movements

Lisa Feldman Barrett, Ralph Adolphs, Stacy Marsella, Aleix M. Martı́nez, Seth D. Pollak · Psychological Science in the Public Interest · 2019 · psychology · 10.1177/1529100619832930 · record barrett2019-emotional-expressions-reconsidered
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reverse inference reliability specificity generalizability validity emotional expression facial configuration emotional expressions facial configurations accuracy Consistency Common view stereotype prototype Choice-from-array tasks free labeling context Ecological validity Conditional probability classical view Facial movement Facial expression Perceiver-dependent Perceiver-independent Forward inference Percent agreement percent accuracy Recognition perception Discrimination identification Emotional granularity response-set constraint manufacturing agreement valence perception passing as emotion perception naming carrying the inference above-chance publication threshold null hypothesis systematic-review
Method, as described: systematic review of expression-production and emotion-perception studies across four populations - developed-nation adults, small-scale remote cultures, infants and children, and congenitally blind people - scored on reliability, specificity and generalizability against chance

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object_of_studythe inference from facial movements to emotional states, and whether the scientific evidence licenses the way that inference is being used in law, hiring, security, education and commercial software
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mechanismsoffering a participant six emotion words and one face forces a choice among them, so agreement measures how the options were built rather than what the face conveys; remove the array and let people supply their own word and the rates fall
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mechanismswhere happiness is the only pleasant category in the array, every distractor differs from the target in valence, so a participant can score perfectly by discriminating pleasant from unpleasant without perceiving any emotion category at all
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mechanismscalling a measured facial movement an 'emotional display' imports the conclusion into the description, so a later reader inherits an inference nobody tested; the same happens with 'recognizing' rather than 'inferring' and 'accuracy' rather than 'agreement'
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mechanismsa result reliable enough to publish can still be low in absolute terms, so a literature of individually valid findings accumulates into a consensus that no single finding supports
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limitationsthe review covers six emotion categories, not the twenty-plus currently studied, because the evidence base for the other categories is far smaller - the conclusions are extended to them by argument rather than by review
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limitationsevidence from small-scale remote cultures on expression PRODUCTION is inconclusive rather than negative: there are no systematic controlled observations of how people in these contexts spontaneously move their faces
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limitationsthe authors' own earlier papers used exactly the design they criticise, presenting posed configurations without context; the critique includes its own authors
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controlsevidence sought across four independent populations - developed-nation adults, small-scale remote cultures, infants and children, and congenitally blind people - so that no single literature's method could carry the conclusion
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senses"emotional expression" - AS LICENSED: a facial configuration that reliably and specifically communicates an emotional state. The paper's glossary adds that many so-called emotional expressions are errors of reverse inference
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sensesFacial movement - an objective, perceiver-independent configuration description that makes no emotional inference
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claim_relationscritiques → the common view that each of six emotion categories is reliably and specifically expressed by, and recognisable from, its own configuration of facial movements
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claim_relationscritiques → automated emotion-recognition technology that infers emotional states from facial movements alone
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content_tagsthe six canonical facial configurations occur during their predicted emotions above chance, but weakly, and evidence for specificity is lacking in almost all research domains
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content_tagsthere are many-to-many mappings between facial configurations and emotion categories - anger is expressed more broadly than a scowl, and scowls express more than anger
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content_tagsthe strength of support for the common view varies systematically with the research method used, and the strongest support does not generalise
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content_tagsChoice-from-array tasks severely limit the chance of observing disconfirming evidence, because they restrict the labels offered.
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content_tagswhere happiness is the only pleasant option, apparent emotion perception may be valence perception
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content_tagsemotion-reading technology detects facial movements, not emotional expressions
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content_tagsthe literature confounds measurement with interpretation - calling movements expressions, inference recognition, and agreement accuracy
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content_tagsa facial configuration, bodily movement or vocal expression that reliably and specifically communicates an emotional state - and many so-called emotional expressions are errors of reverse inference
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content_tagsthat certain emotion categories reliably cause specific patterns of facial muscle movements, and that specific configurations are diagnostic of certain emotion categories
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content_tagsextent to which a participant's performance corresponds to the intended performance, which requires the correct answer to be perceiver-independent
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content_tagsan outcome that does not vary greatly across time, context or individuals - and not accuracy, since a group can consistently believe something wrong
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content_tagsthe probability that X occurs given that Y has occurred; p(frown given sadness) is the form a face-reading claim takes
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content_tagsthe extent to which findings generalise to real-life settings, and the extent to which a protocol captures valid aspects of the real world
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content_tagsassuming an observed facial movement reveals an emotional state you cannot access directly
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content_tagsthe correlation range the paper calls weak reliability - a person sometimes scowls in anger, but not most of the time
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content_tagsreliability
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content_tagsspecificity
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content_tagsgeneralizability
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content_tagsnull hypothesis
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content_tagscontext
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