Facial Expression Selfie Scale Directions: For this part of the demonstration your group is going to try and recreate the study done by Paul Ekman. You are going to need one of your group members (or you can take turns) to pose for photographs. To help you, try to think of a memory that evokes that emotion so that you can have a genuine facial response. Try not to pose but try to actually feel the emotion that you are trying emulate. You are going to be taking 12 total pictures, 2 from each of the following: happy, sad, afraid, angry, disgusted and surprised. Your pictures should be of just your face (like the ones from the practice). Randomize the pictures so that they are not in order. You are going to be using your pictures to survey people (outside of class) to see how well they are at judging emotions. Show the entire set to at least 5 different people. Ask them to rate how confident they are in their answers (1 not confident 5 extremely confident). – Subject Gender Correct guesses 1 2 3 4 5 Analysis: Write an analysis of your results. Think about what pictures were best, worst or confusing. Analyze your ability to create the emotions. Were there gender differences in your results? Age differences? Subject 1: Actual Subject Guess Answer Emotion Confidence
Facial Expression Selfie Scale Directions: For this part of the demonstration your group is going to try and recreate the study done by Paul Ekman. You are going to need one of your group members (or you can take turns) to pose for photographs. To help you, try to think of a memory that evokes that emotion so that you can have a genuine facial response. Try not to pose but try to actually feel the emotion that you are trying emulate. You are going to be taking 12 total pictures, 2 from each of the following: happy, sad, afraid, angry, disgusted and surprised. Your pictures should be of just your face (like the ones from the practice). Randomize the pictures so that they are not in order. You are going to be using your pictures to survey people (outside of class) to see how well they are at judging emotions. Show the entire set to at least 5 different people. Ask them to rate how confident they are in their answers (1 not confident – 5 extremely confident). Subject Gender Correct guesses 1 2 3 4 5 Analysis: Write an analysis of your results. Think about what pictures were best, worst or confusing. Analyze your ability to create the emotions. Were there gender differences in your results? Age differences? Subject 1: Actual Emotion Subject Guess Answer Confidence
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