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Kawahara Lab
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AboutAbout the lab
Exploring people's emotions through facial expressions and voices
The Kawahara Lab studies how people read others' feelings using facial expressions and tone of voice as cues.
It also focuses on how this way of reading emotions differs by age and culture.
From the standpoint of experimental psychology, the lab investigates these questions using methods that measure eye movements and bodily responses.
Using FACS, a method that describes facial expressions in terms of facial muscle movements, it also studies how emotions are expressed.
ResearchResearch themes
*Illustrative imageReading Emotions from Faces and Voices
People read others' feelings from both facial expressions and voices. Through experiments, the lab examines how emotion reading that combines expression and voice changes when the face is partly hidden by a mask or when vision is blurred.
*Illustrative imageAge Stereotypes and How Facial Expressions Are Perceived
Preconceptions such as "older adults feel this way" also affect how facial expressions are read. The lab investigates how preconceptions about age operate when people read emotions from the faces of older and younger adults.
MembersFaculty
- Misako Kawahara
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Faces of Resilience” Agasielisha1234 / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Reading Emotions from Faces and Voices: “Women with handbandana and face mask browsing cellphone” Cecil Dzwowa / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Age Stereotypes and How Facial Expressions Are Perceived: “Old And Young ( )” Vitalii Shmorgun / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
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