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CURRENT DIRECTIONS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Volume 20, Issue 5, Pages 286-290Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0963721411422522
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emotion; emotion recognition; emotion perception; language; context; culture
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We review recent work demonstrating consistent context effects during emotion perception. Visual scenes, voices, bodies, other faces, cultural orientation, and even words shape how emotion is perceived in a face, calling into question the still-common assumption that the emotional state of a person is written on and can be read from the face like words on a page. Incorporating context during emotion perception appears to be routine, efficient, and, to some degree, automatic. This evidence challenges the standard view of emotion perception represented in psychology texts, in the cognitive neuroscience literature, and in the popular media and points to a necessary change in the basic paradigm used in the scientific study of emotion perception.
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