Double Retired wrote:
I have no idea whether or not the study got it right...but I'll toss out a question:
Those of you who say you are good at detecting anger, do you do it based solely upon facial expression?
When I was diagnosed the psychologist showed me some pictures and asked me what the individual's emotion was. I told her I would have to hear the noises they were making.
I see the redness and the intensification of eye-contact (as opposed to embarassment, where eye-contact decreases.) I have a strong aversion to eye-contact, but hostile glares like that flip me over into glaring right back, like I detect it as a direct threat and can't help but fight back. And the eyebrow shape is more distinctive than in most emotions. Of course, there are always other signs- I have never taken part in this experiment. But it's still the emotion I'm most confident of recognising before they've said a single word.
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