what emotion do you see in this pic (immediate response)

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10 Feb 2012, 12:51 am

soooooooooooo have a look at the pic above and select whether it looks happy or sad to you AT FIRST GLANCE. once a person thinks about it, sometimes the answer changes, so make sure to choose the mood that pops into your head initially.

i didn't give an option of a "neutral" expression because... well, that's boring. and not really applicable to the question. also, many people on the board are extremely logic-oriented, and logically that is a neutral face in the picture. but the logical response is not what i am curious about.

in my next post i will explain why i'm asking... it's because of something i read in a book but i don't want to influence your responses... so choose a poll option first then read the next post, ok?
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(if you're curious the picture is a pill pack that has migraine medicine in it)

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10 Feb 2012, 12:53 am

basically.... your mood can apparently affect how you interpret neutral faces. a neutral face may appear negative to a depressed person and positive to a cheerful person. did you find that this was true for you?

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Researchers assemble a series of photos showing various facial expressions: sadness, fear, happiness, and "neutral" . They present them slide-show fashion to a group of people, asking them to identify the expressions. "Normal" people identify the expressions predictably. But cheerful people see the faces through rose-tinted glasses: They are much more likely to judge neutral expressions as the face of happiness. So even in a grey world, the cheerful personality finds reason to smile and wave. Everyone else is happy, too!

Quirk: Brain Science Makes Sense of Your Peculiar Personality by Hannah Holmes
http://www.hannahholmes.net/book/quirk/

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In conclusion, it seems that clinical depression does not affect the recognition of happy and sad faces as much as it affects the recognition of neutral faces. So far, researchers have been primarily interested in studying the effects of depression on the processing of emotional instead of neutral facial expressions. The present study was based on earlier findings suggesting that healthy subjects recognize neutral faces in the same way that they recognize other facial expressions (i.e., categorically), but that depression may impair this ability. Consistent with this hypothesis, it was shown that healthy subjects recognized neutral faces as accurately as prototypical facial expressions of happiness and sadness, while depressed patients showed a clear impairment in the recognition of neutral facial expressions. This impairment was also evident during symptom remission. Together, these results support the hypothesis that depressed individuals may interpret emotionally neutral social cues as emotionally meaningful

Depression biases the recognition of emotionally neutral faces by Jukka M. Leppa¨nena et al
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/vision/Visual_Doc ... search.pdf

(i used a picture of a non-human "face" because it seems like different people's faces have variable and unintentional emotions when they are supposed to seem neutral)

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10 Feb 2012, 12:59 am

Face looked neutral but I figured happy because if a machine is mad its usually flailing robotic arms around in the air. I got no intention of anger directed towards me.

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10 Feb 2012, 1:01 am

Nim wrote:

Face looked neutral but I figured happy because if a machine is mad its usually flailing robotic arms around in the air. I got no intention of anger directed towards me.

ok, i totally SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEED when i thought about a machine flailing its robotic arms!! !! !!

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10 Feb 2012, 1:04 am

Danger Will Robinson.

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10 Feb 2012, 1:05 am

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10 Feb 2012, 1:07 am

Tin man looks strangely panicky to me. :cry: poor guy.

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10 Feb 2012, 1:10 am

Fudo wrote:

Tin man looks strangely panicky to me. :cry:

poor guy.

he has to cure a lot of migraines so he is busy ALL the time

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10 Feb 2012, 1:15 am

i see someone kinda awestruck and walking backwards slowly with a pseudo pokerface

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10 Feb 2012, 1:41 am

Migraines too? This Guy needs a long holiday.

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10 Feb 2012, 1:42 am

I saw a straight face. What does it say about me?...

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10 Feb 2012, 1:43 am

Nim wrote:

Face looked neutral but I figured happy because if a machine is mad its usually flailing robotic arms around in the air. I got no intention of anger directed towards me.

Haha I thought of a robot, too, but the emotion that first popped into my head was surprise. If my research is correct, round eyes means surprise of some kind.

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10 Feb 2012, 1:51 am

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Migraines too? This Guy needs a long holiday.

he's a pill pack. you squish his eyeballs to pop the tablets out the other side. the mouth is an empty filler.

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10 Feb 2012, 1:52 am

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I saw a straight face. What does it say about me?...

hahaha i think you were the only person who read the research part. it probably means you process emotions normally. or something.

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10 Feb 2012, 1:56 am

I swear I scrolled past the text. It's nice though, that people are expected to see a face in an object... :lol: I suspect it would be considered quirky in a different context to this test.

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10 Feb 2012, 2:01 am

Ah I see lol still,he looks like he's suffered enough.

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