What is it about?
This article uses electromyography to examine the facial muscle patterning produced posing happy, sad, and angry facial expressions with that produced by imagining themselves in happy, sad, and angry experience. The facial expressions were found to be very similar in both conditions, even though the posed expressions were much stronger, overall.
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Why is it important?
This paper provides evidence that imagery tasks evoke valid emotional experiences, as represented in facial expressive activity.
Perspectives
This study was one for which I collected data the summer before I went to graduate school. (In fact, I spent "Senior week" in college helping to collect the data. This study is especially important to me because it was my introduction, and initial training in psychophysiological techniques.
Prof. Craig A Smith
Vanderbilt University
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This page is a summary of: The facial muscle patterning of posed and imagery-induced expressions of emotion by expressive and nonexpressive posers, Motivation and Emotion, June 1986, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/bf00992252.
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