title: Judgments of facial expressions of emotion in profile.
abstract: Despite the fact that facial expressions of emotion have signal value, there is surprisingly little research examining how that signal can be detected under various conditions, because most judgment studies utilize full-face, frontal views. We remedy this by obtaining judgments of frontal and profile views of the same expressions displayed by the same expressors. We predicted that recognition accuracy when viewing faces in profile would be lower than when judging the same faces from the front. Contrarily, there were no differences in recognition accuracy as a function of view, suggesting that emotions are judged equally well regardless of from what angle they are viewed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 94132, USA. dm@sfsu.edu
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Matsumoto
authors.forename: Hyi Sung
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Hwang
mesh_terms: D004644:Emotions; D005145:Face; D005149:Facial Expression; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D008297:Male; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D055815:Young Adult