Thrill of victory or agony of defeat? Perceivers fail to utilize information in facial movements.

The thrill of victory; the agony of defeat.

The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat: spontaneous expressions of medal winners of the 2004 Athens Olympic Games.

Facial behaviors of medal winners of the judo competition at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games were coded with P. Ekman and W. V. Friesen's (1978) Facial Affect Coding System (FACS) and interpreted using their Emotion FACS dictionary. Winners' spontaneous expressions were captured immediately when they completed medal matches, when they received their medal from a dignitary, and when they posed on ...

The agony of victory and thrill of defeat: Mixed emotional reactions to disappointing wins and relieving losses.

Because of counterfactual comparisons, good outcomes that could have been better (i.e., disappointing wins) and bad outcomes that could have been worse (i.e., relieving losses) elicit relatively middling ratings on bipolar emotion scales. We conducted two experiments with gambles to examine whether such outcomes elicit neutral emotions, sequentially mixed emotions of positive and negative affec...

Face-body integration of intense emotional expressions of victory and defeat

Human facial expressions can be recognized rapidly and effortlessly. However, for intense emotions from real life, positive and negative facial expressions are difficult to discriminate and the judgment of facial expressions is biased towards simultaneously perceived body expressions. This study employed event-related potentials (ERPs) to investigate the neural dynamics involved in the integrat...

The Olympics, NBA Playoffs, U.S. Open, the World Cup, and Wimbledon--points to ponder.

In the past several months, sports fans have been saturated with high-profile sporting events in this country and abroad. We have watched some of the world’s best athletes compete and have seen the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat. Victory seems to boost city and national pride, and defeat may be associated with national disgrace and/or mourning. It is clear that the population has end...