Emotion processing is an interesting area of neuropsychiatry research, especially in schizophrenia. The age-old concept is that schizophrenics are non-emotional personalities; because of the differences in the inner emotional feelings and its outward expressions (Bleuler and Kraepelin). So, there must be some dissociation between the emotional experience and expression. Electronic journal-datab...

This paper shows that emotional information conveyed by facial expression is often contained not only in the expression of emotions per se, but also in other communicative signals, namely the performatives of communicative acts. An analysis is provided of the performatives of suggesting, warning, ordering, imploring, approving and praising, both on the side of their cognitive structure and on t...

Spatial metaphors for affective valence are common in English, where up in space=happy/positive and down in space=sad/negative. Past research suggests that these metaphors have some measure of psychological reality: people are faster to respond to valenced words and faces when they are presented in metaphor-congruent regions of space. Here we explore whether the orientation of a stimulus – rath...

Micro-expressions are often embedded in a flow of expressions including both neutral and other facial expressions. However, it remains unclear whether the types of facial expressions appearing before and after the micro-expression, i.e., the emotional context, influence micro-expression recognition. To address this question, the present study used a modified METT (Micro-Expression Training Tool...

One of the important non-verbal human communication along with other form like postures and gestures, is emotional facial expression. Facial expression, carries a huge amount of information which represent the emotional feelings of humanity, and by observing people’s facial expressions with its cunning and moment movements can help us to understand what the face tell us because its reflect an i...

Intentional facial expression of emotion is critical to healthy social interactions. Patients with neurodegenerative disease, particularly those with right temporal or prefrontal atrophy, show dramatic socioemotional impairment. This was an exploratory study examining the neural and behavioral correlates of intentional facial expression of emotion in neurodegenerative disease patients and healt...

In this study, we investigated whether age-related differences in emotion regulation priorities influence online dynamic emotional facial discrimination. A group of 40 younger and a group of 40 older adults were invited to recognize a positive or negative expression as soon as the expression slowly emerged and subsequently rate it in terms of intensity. Our findings show that older adults recog...