Skillfulness in the Judgment of Facial Expression in Relation to a Panel of Judges

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The skill fulness of individual Ss in judging facial expressions was evaluated in terms of each S's consistency with the dominant combined judgment of a selected panel of judges. A theoretical model was advanced interrelating distinctions in emotion category, such as pleasure, annoyance, etc., degree of confidence in these category distinctions, and dimensional scaling of emotion intensity and subjective energeticness (activation level) within and combined across already-distinguished monopolar emotion categories. A bipolar pleasure-displeasure emotion intensity dimension was also included. Data extensive enough for analysis of each Ss performance separately were gathered from eight male and female undergraduate Ss on 100 newsmagazine facial snapshots. Nine hypotheses were tested and confirmed. Findings were interpreted as a synthesis and extension of previous approaches. Limitations of the study and directions of future research were discussed.

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