Differences in the meanings of verbal expressions of emotions and their role in perception and categorization of nonverbal signals
2006
Abstract
Czech university students (m=100, f=101) judged basic facial expressions on photographs of Matsumoto & Ekman (1988). Previous studies used forced-choice method usually with limited number of high-defferentiated options (fear, joy, anger etc.).
All of basic facial expressions was then recognized with high recognition accuracies (70-95%). We tried to provide respondents more differentiated sets of options in the present study.
More precise diversification of options caused more diverse recognition accuracies for individual facial expressions (40-92%). Results are explained from the view of different verbal register for particular emotion families and from the view of morphology of different facial expressions.