Conference: Theories and methods for conceptualizing facial emotion

会议：概念化面部情感的理论和方法

• 批准号: 2317208
• 负责人: Joshua Correll
• 金额: $ 4.49万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-07-01 至 2025-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2317208&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Theories; methods; conceptualizing; facial

Emotions are an important aspect of human life. They serve an adaptive function, steering people toward resources that facilitate survival and away from potential harms. Emotions also enable people to quickly communicate important information to others and to motivate individual and collective action. These complex internal representations are often communicated through facial expressions. Whether or not they perfectly reflect emotional states, people routinely draw inferences about others based on facial displays. Theoretical accounts for these effects rest on the idea that emotional states correspond with unique facial expressions. This perspective is still being developed, and has spurred a number of very important theoretical debates. For example, researchers argue whether emotions are truly discrete, whether cultures vary in how and when emotion is displayed and perceived, and whether social categories influence emotion display and perception. This conference series explores areas of contention within the study of facial affect and emotion recognition and offers a platform for developing novel, competing, and testable hypotheses aimed at advancing scientific understanding. Significant training and networking opportunities are provided to scholars across multiple disciplines.Experts in the field of affective sciences meet for a two-part conference focused on explicating and refining theoretical perspectives related to various aspects of facial emotion expressions. The hybrid conferences are organized around a fully-online meeting, followed by an in-person session scheduled several months subsequent to the first meeting. The conferences provide a forum for debating central theoretical questions related to facial affect and emotion recognition. Outcomes include the development of novel, testable hypotheses meant to resolve outstanding debates and to advance current theoretical positions. The conferences are widely promoted and designed to encourage participation, especially for early-career scholars. Results of the conference are shared broadly.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

情绪是人类生活的重要方面。他们发挥自适应功能，将人们朝着促进生存并远离潜在危害的资源方向前进。情绪还使人们能够将重要信息迅速传达给他人，并激励个人和集体行动。这些复杂的内部表示通常是通过面部表情传达的。无论他们是否完美地反映了情绪状态，人们通常会根据面部展示来推论他人。这些影响的理论上说明了情绪状态与独特的面部表情相对应的观念。这种观点仍在开发中，并刺激了许多非常重要的理论辩论。例如，研究人员认为，情感是否真正离散，文化是否在表现和何时表现和何时却有所不同，以及社会类别是否影响情感表现和感知。该会议系列探讨了面部情感和情感认识的研究中的争论领域，并为开发旨在促进科学理解的新颖，竞争和可检验的假设提供了一个平台。为跨多个学科的学者提供了重要的培训和网络机会。情感科学领域的专家开会，举办了两部分会议，旨在阐明和完善与面部情感表达各个方面相关的理论观点。混合动力会议是围绕着在线会议围绕的，随后举行了一次面对面的会议，该会议计划在第一次会议之后的几个月内举行。这些会议提供了一个论坛，以辩论与面部情感和情感认识有关的中心理论问题。结果包括开发新颖的可检验假设，旨在解决杰出的辩论并推进当前的理论立场。这些会议得到了广泛的促进和设计，以鼓励参与，尤其是对于早期的学者。会议的结果广泛共享。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的审查标准来评估值得支持的。