Yeah that’s true.
“I thought it was very odd to have only one positive
emotion,” says cognitive scientist Aleix Martinez of Ohio State University in
Columbus.
Like him every scientist thought that people could convey
only happiness, surprise, sadness, anger, fear and disgust.
He and colleagues came up with 16 combined ones, such as
“happily disgusted” and “happily surprised.” Then the researchers asked
volunteers to imagine situations that would provoke these emotions, such as
listening to a gross joke, or getting unexpected good news.
The team compared pictures of the volunteers making
different faces and analyzed every eyebrow wrinkle, mouth stretch and tightened
chin, “what we found was beyond belief,” Martinez says. For each compound
emotion everyone used the same facial muscles. The team reports on March 31 in
the Proceedings of the National Academy
of Sciences.
This research may be help computer engineer to develop face
recognized software and help scientists better understand emotion-perception
disorders such as schizophrenia.
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