Emotion-detection applications built on outdated science, report warns

Science Daily  July 18, 2019 The general public and some scientists believe that there are unique facial expressions that reliably indicate six emotion categories: anger, sadness, happiness, disgust, fear, and surprise. But in reviewing more than 1,000 published findings about facial movements and emotions, a team of researchers in the US (Northeastern University, Mass General Hospital, Caltech, the Ohio State University, University of Wisconsin) found that typical study designs don’t capture the real-life differences in the way people convey and interpret emotions on faces. They propose a new model for studying emotion-related responses in all their complexity and variations. This […]