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Anna Nicholson · @transponderings
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The NimStim database was validated by 81 participants, 51 female and 30 male, aged 18–35, with over 70% being European American – a mixture of 34 New Yorkers and 47 undergraduates from a Midwestern US liberal arts college

Validation used a forced-choice method: the participants had to choose one of the eight facial expression terms (‘happy’, ‘sad’, ‘angry’, ‘fearful’, ‘surprised’, ‘disgusted’, ‘neutral’ and ‘calm’) that the actors had been given, or ‘none of the above’, for each face in the database

I’ll skip over the statistical analysis – mainly because it would take me too long to understand it! – but I see a couple of potentially significant problems

First, as noted in the paper, these are posed photographs

People are pretty bad at judging emotions from context-free still images (see e.g. doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-253)

And a professional actor portraying a static emotion is likely to produce a relatively unnatural performance

Second, there’s the double empathy problem (kar.kent.ac.uk/62639/): specifically, why should Autistic people be expected to read emotions from facial expressions validated by neurotypical people?

Why do I say they were neurotypical?

I can’t be 100% sure, but it’s the word *healthy*: the validators are described as ‘untrained, healthy adult research participants’

Am I wrong to assume that ‘healthy’ is code for neurotypical here?

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Miguel Afonso Caetano · @remixtures
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Medium - AI and the American Smile - jenka - Medium

: "As a person who was not born in the U.S., who immigrated here from the former Soviet Union, as I did, this question is not so simple. In 2006, as part of her Ph.D. dissertation, “The Phenomenon of the Smile in Russian, British and American Cultures,” Maria Arapova, a professor of Russian language and cross-cultural studies at Lomonosov Moscow State University, asked 130 university students from the U.S., Europe, and Russia to imagine they had just made eye contact with a stranger in a public place — at the bus stop, near an elevator, on the subway, etc.

Which, she asked the participants, would you do next?

A) smile and then look away
B) look away
C) gaze at his eyes, then look away

90% of Americans and Europeans chose the option with a smile in it. Only 15% of Russians did.

How we smile, when we smile, why we smile, and what it means is deeply culturally contextual."

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