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Friday, July 19, 2013

What Grinds My Gears? Media Coverage of Emotion Research

What's in a facial expression of emotion? (source)Last week Boston Magazine published an article (here) claiming a "new theory" of emotion. The article then challenged the idea that emotions are signaled and perceived universally through unique facial expressions (like we've discussed here). The article purports to be a take-down of famous emotion researcher Paul Ekman*--whose work has been popularized on such television shows as Lie to Me. Here is why I hated this article:Read More->
Source:http://psych-your-mind.blogspot.com/2013/07/what-grinds-my-gears-media-coverage-of.html

What Grinds My Gears? Media Coverage of Emotion Research Images

Figure 1. Number of Google search hits for informatics-related terms ...
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