ARTICLE 5
Lemeignan, M.Aguilera-T, N, & Bloch, S. (1992) “Emotional Effector Patterns: Recognition of Expressions”. Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive /European Bulletin of Cognitive Psychology, 12:173-188.
One of the most difficult problems to solve in science is how to validate results beyond the quantitative analysis. In the case of research on emotions this is even more difficult due to the great subjectivity of any interpretation.
The following article reports an experiment in recognition in which it is demonstrated that the correct reproduction of the emotional effector patterns does indeed transmit to the observer the corresponding emotion unequivocally.
Such a finding validates the method since naive observers recognize correctly the motions expressed by the reproduced effector patterns.
