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SUBMITTER: Gendron M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7051983 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gendron Maria M Hoemann Katie K Crittenden Alyssa N AN Mangola Shani Msafiri SM Ruark Gregory A GA Barrett Lisa Feldman LF
Scientific reports 20200302 1
It has long been claimed that certain configurations of facial movements are universally recognized as emotional expressions because they evolved to signal emotional information in situations that posed fitness challenges for our hunting and gathering hominin ancestors. Experiments from the last decade have called this particular evolutionary hypothesis into doubt by studying emotion perception in a wider sample of small-scale societies with discovery-based research methods. We replicate these n ...[more]