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How does perceiving eye direction modulate emotion recognition?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 December 2010

Laurence Conty ,
Julie Grèzes  and
David Sander
Laurence Conty
Affiliation:
Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, INSERM U960, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 75005 Paris, France. laurence.conty@ens.fr http://www.grezes.ens.fr/people.php?id=2 julie.grezes@ens.fr http://www.grezes.ens.fr/people.php?id=1
Julie Grèzes
Affiliation:
Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, INSERM U960, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 75005 Paris, France. laurence.conty@ens.fr http://www.grezes.ens.fr/people.php?id=2 julie.grezes@ens.fr http://www.grezes.ens.fr/people.php?id=1
David Sander
Affiliation:
Laboratory for the Study of Emotion Elicitation and Expression (E3 Lab), Department of Psychology, Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, CH-1205 Geneva, Switzerland Centre Interfacultaire en Sciences Affectives (CISA) – University of Geneva, CH-1205 Geneva, Switzerland. david.sander@unige.ch http://cms.unige.ch/fapse/EmotionLab/Sander.html
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Abstract

Niedenthal et al. postulate that eye contact with the expresser of an emotion automatically initiates embodied simulation. Our commentary explores the generality of such an eye contact effect for emotions other than happiness. Based on the appraisal theory of emotion, we propose that embodied simulation may be reinforced by mutual or averted gaze as a function of emotional context.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 33 , Issue 6 , December 2010 , pp. 443 - 444
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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