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CURRENT DIRECTIONS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Volume 15, Issue 5, Pages 222-226Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8721.2006.00440.x
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face perception; faces; emotion; amygdala
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Perception and emotion interact, as is borne out by studies of how people recognize emotion from facial expressions. Psychological and neurological research has elucidated the processes, and the brain structures, that participate in facial emotion recognition. Studies have shown that emotional reactions to viewing faces can be very rapid and that these reactions may, in turn, be used to judge the emotion shown in the face. Recent experiments have argued that people actively explore facial expressions in order to recognize the emotion, a mechanism that emphasizes the instrumental nature of social cognition.
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