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Published on: August 26, 2016
What emotion does the "facial expression of disgust" express?
Joseph T Pochedly1, Sherri C Widen, James A Russell
1Department of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA. widensh@bc.edu
Abstract:
The emotion attributed to the prototypical "facial expression of disgust" (a nose scrunch) depended on what facial expressions preceded it. In two studies, the majority of 120 children (5-14 years) and 135 adults (16-58 years) judged the nose scrunch as expressing disgust when the preceding set included an anger scowl, but as angry when the anger scowl was omitted. An even greater proportion of observers judged the nose scrunch as angry when the preceding set also included a facial expression of someone about to be sick. The emotion attributed to the nose scrunch therefore varies with experimental context.
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