Emotion perception as affect perception
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https://doi.org/10.51359/2357-9986.2022.256755Keywords:
emotions, perception, action, social perception, theory of mindAbstract
Can we perceive emotions in another person’s face? According to some phi-losophers the answer to this question is positive: by seeing a person’s facial expression of happiness I hereby see her happiness. The aim of this paper isto argue that this is not the case: when we see another person’s facial ex-pression, we do not perceive the corresponding emotion, but rather the af-fective aspect of the emotion. In addition, I suggest that the perception ofthis affective aspect emerges from a peculiar perception-action loop that is automatically activated when an observer encounters a face expressing anemotion.
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