Emotion Recognition as Pattern Recognition: The Relevance of Perception

Newen, Albert; Welpinghus, Anna; Juckel, Georg

doi:10.1111/mila.12077

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“…84-93, 2010a, Bar-On (2004, pp. 264-284, 2010, Zahavi (2007), Smith (2015), and Newen et al (2015). 3 Green (2007) defends this view.…”

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Looking angry and sounding sad: The perceptual analysis of emotional expression

Glazer

2016

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According to the Perceptual Analysis of Emotional Expression, behaviors express emotions by making them perceptually manifest. A smile is an expression of joy because an observer who sees a smile can see joy. A pout is an expression of grief because an observer who sees a pout can see grief. And a growl is an expression of anger because an observer who hears a growl can hear anger. The idea is not simply that expressions can enable the perception of emotion, but that expressions essentially do so. In the course of defending this analysis against challenges, I develop a novel account of the relationship between language and expression.Keywords Expression · Emotion · Perception · Evidence · Language "We see emotion." -As opposed to what? -We do not see facial contortions and make the inference that he is feeling joy, grief, boredom. We describe a face immediately as sad, radiant, bored, even when we are unable to give any other description of the features. -Grief, one would like to say, is personified in the face. (Wittgenstein 1980, §570) A satisfying analysis of "emotional expression" ought to specify the necessary and jointly sufficient conditions under which a bit of behavior will count as an expression of emotion. This analysis ought to tell us why a smile is an expression of joy, a pout is an expression of grief, and a growl is an expression of anger. Furthermore, it ought to tell us why other behaviors, like coughing and wheezing, aren't (typically) expressions of emotion at all. B Trip Glazer trip.

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“…84-93, 2010a, Bar-On (2004, pp. 264-284, 2010, Zahavi (2007), Smith (2015), and Newen et al (2015). 3 Green (2007) defends this view.…”

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Looking angry and sounding sad: The perceptual analysis of emotional expression

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2016

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“…and external aspects (bodily expressions, behavioral patterns, etc. ), which together form “clusters” (Krueger and Overgaard ) or “patterns of characteristic features” (Newen, Welpinghus and Juckel ) . And as a result of these clusters or patterns, bodily expressions may sometimes form proper parts of emotional states.…”

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“…To clarify, Newen (, 773) draws an analogy to a house, which is individuated by a pattern of characteristic features, some of which are jointly sufficient for an object to be of the type “house.” A sufficient amount of these characteristic features allows us to see the house, even if some very typical components like a front door, roof, or chimney are lacking. This permits weakening the emphasis on embodiment: “contra the embodiment thesis, we allow that sometimes bodily features are not involved in emotion recognition” (Newen, Welpinghus and Juckel , 204).…”

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Toward a Perceptual Account of Mindreading

Varga

2018

Philos Phenomenol Research

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A number of philosophers argue that consistent with the phenomenology of everyday mindreading, appropriately endowed observers are sometimes able to visually perceive that someone is angry. Call this view the Perceptual Account of Mindreading (PA). The paper starts by exploring the merits and limits of the main strategies that have been employed to defend PA. The second aim is to present and defend a version of PA, according to which some mental properties can be observational properties. Providing support for this thesis includes a shift of focus to properties presented in perceptual experience and a systematic examination of a body of recent empirical material on animacy perception and visual aftereffects.

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“…3 Affective aspects – temperament and emotional dispositions reflecting a particular mix of affective factors that range from very basic and mostly covert or tacit bodily affects to typical emotional expressions [86]. …”

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Towards a Phenomenology of Self-Patterns in Psychopathological Diagnosis and Therapy

Daly

Gallagher

2019

Psychopathology

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Categorization-based diagnosis, which endeavors to be consistent with the third-person, objective measures of science, is not always adequate with respect to problems concerning diagnostic accuracy, demarcation problems when there are comorbidities, well-documented problems of symptom amplification, and complications of stigmatization and looping effects. While psychiatric categories have proved useful and convenient for clinicians in identifying a recognizable constellation of symptoms typical for a particular disorder for the purposes of communication and eligibility for treatment regimes, the reification of these categories has without doubt had negative consequences for the patient and also for the general understanding of psychiatric disorders. We argue that a complementary, integrated framework that focuses on descriptive symptom-based classifications (drawing on phenomenological interview methods and narrative) combined with a more comprehensive conception of the human subject (found in the pattern theory of self), can not only offer a solution to some of the vexed issues of psychiatric diagnosis but also support more efficacious therapeutic interventions.

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Emotion Recognition as Pattern Recognition: The Relevance of Perception

Cited by 72 publications

References 56 publications

Looking angry and sounding sad: The perceptual analysis of emotional expression

Looking angry and sounding sad: The perceptual analysis of emotional expression

Toward a Perceptual Account of Mindreading

Towards a Phenomenology of Self-Patterns in Psychopathological Diagnosis and Therapy

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