![]() But a new cohort of psychologists and cognitive scientists has been revisiting those data and questioning the conclusions. These ideas stood largely unchallenged for a generation. Influential observations in the 1960s and 1970s by US psychologist Paul Ekman suggested that, around the world, humans could reliably infer emotional states from expressions on faces - implying that emotional expressions are universal 2, 3. They have questioned adults and children in different countries and Indigenous populations in remote parts of the world. Researchers have been asking people what emotions they perceive in faces for decades. The team, at the University of Glasgow, UK, enlisted participants from Western and East Asian cultures to explore a long-standing and highly charged question: do facial expressions reliably communicate emotions? Psychologist Rachael Jack and her colleagues recruited 80 people to take this test as part of a study 1 in 2018. ![]() For each one, you must answer this simple question: is this the face of someone having an orgasm or experiencing sudden pain? Some have eyes squeezed shut, cheeks lifted and mouths agape. Some have their eyes stretched wide, others show lips clenched. Human faces pop up on a screen, hundreds of them, one after another.
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