Published on 12, July, 2020
I am in the middle of an Open Learn course (thanks Pixiefox for always posting about these. I would not have found this if not for your 3 good things)
It is about animal psychology. (These are quick courses - it's only a 12 hour course)
I was compelled to post one of the slides, because it was about human facial expressions. It reminded me of a test that we can do to test for autism (I have not as yet - it wasn't part of my own diagnosis.)
I didn't do too badly, but also had a laugh at what I put down.
Try to think about what your answers would be without being waylaid by my answers and the real answers. I would like to have split this picture and have some sort of reveal button. But that won't work here.
My answers:
Neurotypical approved answers
I got the two basic ones right (happy/sad) but then didn't do as well as I thought I would. I still think I am right about my two types of anger
I do not think that the given answers are particularly accurate in some cases. I think that (f) is the most inaccurate, that expression looks much more like general distress than disgust. Disgust almost always involves the corners of the mouth being pulled down and is more often than not with closed, rather than open lips, and also with wrinkling of the nose. I think they cocked up big time with that attribution.
I suspect like FH said that the person is doing the faces to order rather than actually feeling those emotions. I don't know how they could capture those faces for real though.