T WENTY-FIVE years ago Feleky published a set of posed emotional expressions and urged psychologists to supplement them with " snapshots of men, women and children in naturally aroused emotional states." * Since that time several similar sets have been published and used to investigate judgment of emotion from facial expression. To the writer's knowledge, however, nobody has utilized expressions of emotion aroused naturally under conditions of everyday life. 2 The need for such expressions in this field of research has recently been emphasized by Woodworth. 3 He says, "Granted that actors express in their faces a variety of emotions to a recognizable degree, it does not follow that the faces of everyday folk are spontaneously expressive. There is a strong element of convention in stage expressions, as there is a strong element of control and suppression in the facial behavior of the ordinary adult. It would be worth while to photograph the spontaneous expressions of children and adults, while undergoing emotion, and to check such photographs as the poses have been checked, by submitting them to the judgment of unprejudiced observers." There is in this statement a suggestion that naturally aroused expressions might be less readily recognized than are those posed by an actor or actress.The closest approximation to naturally aroused emotional expressions yet used in research are those photographed in the laboratory by Landis * and Dunlap. 5 Such expressions might also be inadequate as a basis for interpretation of emotion in that 1 A. M. Feleky. The expression of the emotions.
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