title: Emotion perception from a componential perspective.
abstract: The common conceptual understanding of emotion is that they are multi-componential, including subjective feelings, appraisals, psychophysiological activation, action tendencies, and motor expressions. Emotion perception, however, has traditionally been studied in terms of emotion labels, such as "happy", which do not clearly indicate whether one, some, or all emotion components are perceived. We examine whether emotion percepts are multi-componential and extend previous research by using more ecologically valid, dynamic, and multimodal stimuli and an alternative response measure. The results demonstrate that observers can reliably infer multiple types of information (subjective feelings, appraisals, action tendencies, and social messages) from complex emotion expressions. Furthermore, this finding appears to be robust to changes in response items. The results are discussed in light of their implications for research on emotion perception.
authors: a Swiss Center for Affective Sciences , University of Geneva , Geneva , Switzerland.
authors: Vera
authors: V
authors: Shuman
authors: a Swiss Center for Affective Sciences , University of Geneva , Geneva , Switzerland.|b Department of Psychology , University of Geneva , Geneva , Switzerland.
authors: Elizabeth
authors: E
authors: Clark-Polner
authors: a Swiss Center for Affective Sciences , University of Geneva , Geneva , Switzerland.
authors: Ben
authors: B
authors: Meuleman
authors: a Swiss Center for Affective Sciences , University of Geneva , Geneva , Switzerland.|b Department of Psychology , University of Geneva , Geneva , Switzerland.
authors: David
authors: D
authors: Sander
authors: a Swiss Center for Affective Sciences , University of Geneva , Geneva , Switzerland.
authors: Klaus R
authors: KR
authors: Scherer
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001307:Auditory Perception; D004644:Emotions; D005149:Facial Expression; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D014796:Visual Perception; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Emotion perception; componential emotion; emotion expression