Facial Expressions Test

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OddFinn
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15 Jul 2009, 9:44 am

29 %.

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15 Jul 2009, 1:11 pm

46%

I was good at joy and surprise, sucked at everything else.

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15 Jul 2009, 1:33 pm

50%. Honestly, though, I do not at all believe this to be a fair test, as simple photographs omit the body language (movement) that goes along with an emotion. It is not just the individual expression, but the movements that precede and follow it.

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15 Jul 2009, 3:57 pm

AmberEyes wrote:

Hmmm...

I've done a bit of reading on facial expressions. I'm starting to suspect that interpreting subtle emotions in the human face is very similar to interpreting meanings in artwork. For instance, many people would extract different meanings from a painting: none of them would be "wrong" as such, but would just have different perspectives and personal interpretations of the art. Interpreting human emotions and motives is not an exact thing. That's why I doubt that emotional expression could ever be measured quantitatively.

Different people probably see the world and each other through different perceptual "lenses". Behaviour that might irritate one person may not irritate another. Different people's different frames of references, temperaments and prior social experiences probably do affect their interpretations and reactions to different social situations.

People may also try to deceive one another by masking/suppressing their true feelings by muting/substituting one facial expression for another. Others may not use such a large repertoire of facial expressions due to their underlying personalities. Social situations can quickly become complex.

There's also the issue of social context. A wrinkled nose could mean: disgust, smelling something or an itchy nose. That's why it's important to attend to the physical/verbal context of the situation as well as what the whole body is doing.

Perhaps body language is an art-form and social communication is a kind of "dance"?

Yes, some of it is subjective. One thing to consider is a lot of it may also be objective. One thing I found interesting is there's quite a bit of research that many facial expressions are universal across cultures, and to those even among those born blind! So there's more to it than just what we learn from operant conditioning/culture. However, what does differ between cultures, is intensity and when it's socially appropriate to show off your emotions (ex, East Asians vs. the United States vs. Latin American countries).

Here's something I found interesting on the Universality of Facial Expressions, by the American Psychological Association.
http://www.apa.org/journals/releases/psp9611.pdf
It looked at the 2004 Olympics and also Paralympics and compared the blind athletes to those who could see, and there's universality. Interesting.

Something cool I came across is the Facial Action Coding System, which is a standardized way to measure facial expressions by the facial muscles used http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial_Act ... ing_System The coding system for the units is supposed to be independent of interpretation, although it doesn't provide an interpretation of the expression. However, when I look at the details between many of these online facial expressions tests, it doesn't say they use that but rather use a panel of judges to decide if facial expressions are accurate. So it may not be as accurate.

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19 Jul 2009, 3:30 am

You correctly identified 46 % of the expressions. For each emotion expressed, your score is as follows:

Joy: you correcly identified 3 of 4
Fear: you correcly identified 1 of 4
Disgust: you correcly identified 2 of 4
Surprise: you correcly identified 2 of 4
Anger: you correcly identified 3 of 4
Sadness: you correcly identified 1 of 4
Contempt: you correcly identified 1 of 4

Yipes!

But I think it would be easier if they moved too. The lady with gasses was unreadable in those still pictures, I swear.
Anger and contempt are mighty similar...

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19 Jul 2009, 5:14 am

I got 39%

3 of 4 joy
0 of 4 fear
2 of 4 disgust
2 of 4 surprise
1 of 4 anger
1 of 4 sadness
2 of 4 contempt

that was alot harder than I thought it would be. Pretty hard to guess which emotion of a snapshot tho. The lady with the glasses looked the same in every picture.

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19 Jul 2009, 6:09 am

RESULTS:

You correctly identified 50% of the expressions. For each emotion expressed, your score is as follows:
Joy: you correcly identified 3 of 4
Fear: you correcly identified 0 of 4
Disgust: you correcly identified 3 of 4
Surprise: you correcly identified 3 of 4
Anger: you correcly identified 2 of 4
Sadness: you correcly identified 2 of 4
Contempt: you correcly identified 1 of 4

That was difficult. Most of my answers were guesses, as most of those faces looked like they were expressing puzzlement to me.

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19 Jul 2009, 7:20 am

MY RESULTS:

You correctly identified 54% of the expressions. For each emotion expressed, your score is as follows:

Joy: you correcly identified of 4
Fear: you correcly identified of 4
Disgust: you correcly identified of 4
Surprise: you correcly identified of 4
Anger: you correcly identified of 4
Sadness: you correcly identified of 4
Contempt: you correcly identified of 4

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19 Jul 2009, 7:45 am

Got 36% right. I do much better with the drawings! But look, I thought all these faces were rather phony--that is I knew they were actors so most seemed silly to me. I also wonder about the distinction between contempt and disgust. You know I thought some of the people looked like they were about to break into a smile. Still, I really bombed this one.

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19 Jul 2009, 1:21 pm

I got a 50%, most of the ones I got "wrong" were "contempt/anger" confusion which isn't really confusion at all, since contempt=hatred and is correlated with anger, of course I've also heard of psychologists act like contempt and hatred were two different emotions, lol, lack of knowledge about synonyms, contempt and hatred are as different as jealousy and envy.

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19 Jul 2009, 2:38 pm

I got 46%.
Joy: you correctly identified 3 of 4
Fear: you correctly identified 1 of 4
Disgust: you correctly identified 4 of 4
Surprise: you correctly identified 3 of 4
Anger: you correctly identified 1 of 4
Sadness: you correctly identified 1 of 4
Contempt: you correctly identified 0 of 4

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21 Jul 2009, 9:34 pm

54% for me. Hmm. Not sure what to think about this test.

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21 Jul 2009, 11:41 pm

not sure how i feel about this test. when i got a 57% i thought that seemed about right. however i've had five other people take the test, all NTs, and all but one of them scored lower than me. one got a 61% and seemed baffled by some of the faces.

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21 Jul 2009, 11:49 pm

Got a 54%, would be interesting to see what normal is. Small problem i had though, the faces are static, surprise often comes with a motion usually a jolt of some sort. Similarly Joy also has it's own motion. I took a class on animation once, probably part of the reason i learned some body language, i got to pick it apart and recreate it in detail.

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24 Jul 2009, 1:30 am

got 43% but damn that was hard. I would imagine it would be hard for anyone to get alot over 60%

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24 Jul 2009, 5:40 am

You correctly identified 50% of the expressions. For each emotion expressed, your score is as follows:
Joy: you correcly identified 3 of 4
Fear: you correcly identified 0 of 4
Disgust: you correcly identified 1 of 4
Surprise: you correcly identified 2 of 4
Anger: you correcly identified 3 of 4
Sadness: you correcly identified 2 of 4
Contempt: you correcly identified 3 of 4

Ooh these tests are fun, however without context it is difficult to tell what people are trying to communicate especially as you don't know them personally.

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