Available online 23 November 2011 We investigated how leaders' gender interacts with anger and sadness expression and followers' attributions for their emotional expression on evaluations made by followers. In a laboratory study concerning hypothetical leaders, people evaluated the competence of male and female leaders differently depending on their emotional displays (anger vs. sadness). These...

The authors have been developing humanoid robots in order to develop new mechanisms and functions for a humanoid robot that has the ability to communicate naturally with a human by expressing human-like emotion. We considered that human hands play an important role in communication because human hands have grasping, sensing and emotional expression abilities. Then, we developed the the Emotion ...

The Effectiveness of Painting Therapy Based on Mindfulness Emotional Expression in Female Students with Test Anxiety Disorders: A Quasi-Experimental Study

OBJECTIVE Writing in an emotional way about stressful or traumatic experiences has beneficial effects on emotional well-being and physical health. Yet the mechanisms that underlie these effects still need to be explored. Integrating research on the effects of positive expectancies, the authors suggest that positive effects of written emotional expression may, in part, depend on expectancies ind...

This paper explores the application of metaphorical design in furniture based on parametric technology. The semantics designs were expressed by metaphors to enrich ways expression and meet customized needs. methods, emotional analyzed, utilization technology was explored case studies. Metaphorical design, as a means is way expression, or even an outcome expression. Use process manufacturing wil...

High and Low alexithymia scorers were confronted with a modified visual oddball task that allows to study Categorical Perception of emotional expressions on faces. Participants had to quickly detect a deviant (rare) morphed face that shared or did not share the same emotional expression as the frequent one. Expected categorical perception effects, which were also neurophysiologically indexed, s...

Decades of masculinity research have concluded that society places higher demands on males to adhere to norms for low emotional expression; yet, countless studies find that emotional expression is integral to well-being. Unfortunately, this contradiction places boys and men in a tenuous position as they must navigate a bombardment of societal messages about the importance of emotional stoicism ...

Visual working memory (WM) for face identities is enhanced when faces express negative versus positive emotion. To determine the stage at which emotion exerts its influence on memory for person information, we isolated expression (angry/happy) to the encoding phase (Experiment 1; neutral test faces) or retrieval phase (Experiment 2; neutral study faces). WM was only enhanced by anger when expre...

The facial expression plays a crucial role in interpersonal communication. We can perceive people’s inner world by observing his/her facial expressions. In this paper, we present a simple methodology for synthesizing realistic facial expressions by manipulating emotional status. For the convenience of parametric representation, we adopt a statistical model to describe facial appearance variatio...