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1.
Richer, A.; Gingras, F.; Plouffe-Demers, M. -P.; Fiset, D.; Blais, C.
Is it pain, anger, disgust, or sadness? Individual differences in expectations of pain facial expressions. Journal Article
In: Emotion, vol. 25, no. 7, pp. 1750–1763, 2025, ISSN: 15283542 (ISSN).
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: adult, anger, article, awareness, confusion, disgust, emotion, emotionality, Emotions, Facial Expression, facial expressions confusion, Facial Recognition, Fear, female, human, human experiment, Humans, Individual differences, Individuality, joy, male, mental representation, Pain, pain facial expression, Pain facial expressions, perception, physiology, psychology, Reverse correlation, sadness, Social Perception, suprise, Young Adult
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Humans rely on facial expressions to assess others’ affective states. However, pain facial expressions are poorly recognized and are often confused with other negative affective states, such as anger, disgust, sadness, and fear. Previous research has shown that individuals’ expectations about the appearance of pain facial expressions are not optimal and do not perfectly reflect the facial features typically observed in individuals expressing pain. In the present study, we verified if expectations about pain facial expressions are also suboptimal by overlapping with other affective states. We relied on two published data sets (data collected between 2017 and 2020) containing images representing the expectations of the appearance of pain facial expressions according to 162 White participants. We then asked an independent group of White participants (N = 60, 30 women
2.
Richer, A.; Gingras, F.; Plouffe-Demers, M. -P.; Fiset, D.; Blais, C.
Is it pain, anger, disgust, or sadness? Individual differences in expectations of pain facial expressions. Journal Article
In: Emotion, vol. 25, no. 7, pp. 1750–1763, 2025, ISSN: 15283542 (ISSN).
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: adult, anger, article, awareness, confusion, disgust, emotion, emotionality, Emotions, Facial Expression, facial expressions confusion, Facial Recognition, Fear, female, human, human experiment, Humans, Individual differences, Individuality, joy, male, mental representation, Pain, pain facial expression, Pain facial expressions, perception, physiology, psychology, Reverse correlation, sadness, Social Perception, suprise, Young Adult
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3.
Saumure, C.; Plouffe-Demers, M. -P.; Fiset, D.; Cormier, S.; Zhang, Y.; Sun, D.; Feng, M.; Luo, F.; Kunz, M.; Blais, C.
In: Affective Science, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 332–349, 2023, ISSN: 26622041 (ISSN), (Publisher: Springer Nature).
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Cross-cultural, decoding, Intensity, Pain communication, Pain facial expressions
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Effectively communicating pain is crucial for human beings. Facial expressions are one of the most specific forms of behavior associated with pain, but the way culture shapes expectations about the intensity with which pain is typically facially conveyed, and the visual strategies deployed to decode pain intensity in facial expressions, is poorly understood. The present study used a data-driven approach to compare two cultures, namely East Asians and Westerners, with respect to their mental representations of pain facial expressions (experiment 1
4.
Saumure, C.; Plouffe-Demers, M. -P.; Fiset, D.; Cormier, S.; Zhang, Y.; Sun, D.; Feng, M.; Luo, F.; Kunz, M.; Blais, C.
In: Affective Science, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 332–349, 2023, ISSN: 26622041 (ISSN).
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Cross-cultural, decoding, Intensity, Pain communication, Pain facial expressions
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Effectively communicating pain is crucial for human beings. Facial expressions are one of the most specific forms of behavior associated with pain, but the way culture shapes expectations about the intensity with which pain is typically facially conveyed, and the visual strategies deployed to decode pain intensity in facial expressions, is poorly understood. The present study used a data-driven approach to compare two cultures, namely East Asians and Westerners, with respect to their mental representations of pain facial expressions (experiment 1