Fooled by a smile: Detecting anxiety in others

Author(s): Taing, K. T.

Journal/Book: J Nonverbal Behav. 1997; 21: 233 Spring St, New York, NY 10013-1578. Human Sci Press Inc. 203-221.

Abstract: Results from this research on facial affect indicative of state anxiety suggest that expressors' smiles may have masked self-reported state anxiety such that judges were misled in their judgments of expressors' state anxiety. While in 17 earlier studies judges were highly accurate in detecting state anxiety, judges were unable to distinguish low from high state anxiety in the present samples, and sometimes rated expressors in high state-anxiety segments as more happy and likable than in low state-anxiety segments. The critical difference between the present and earlier studies seems to be the size of the image and the resulting fact that nonenjoyment smiles were more visible to judges.

Note: Article Harrigan JA, Calif State Univ Fullerton, Dept Psychol, Fullerton,CA 92634 USA

Keyword(s): FACIAL EXPRESSIONS; AUDITORY CUES; STATE ANXIETY; EMOTION; JUDGMENTS; BEHAVIOR; SPEECH; FACE; UNIVERSALS; PHYSIOLOGY

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