“Happily disgusted” is an actual part of you emotional reservoir according to Ohio State University researchers who are now of the belief that facial expressions involve up to 21 distinct emotional states, three times more than previously thought.
Researchers used computer software to identify 21 distinct emotional states (somehow excluding the no face (-_-) and the shade face (:/)) and their corresponding facial tells, mutating the traditional core six of happy, sad, fearful, angry, surprised and disgusted into complex hybrid emotions including “sadly angry”, “happily disgusted” and “fearfully angry”.
“We’ve gone beyond facial expressions for simple emotions like happy or sad,” Dr Aleix Martinez, head researcher and associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ohio State University said. “We found a strong consistency in how people move their facial muscles to express 21 categories of emotions. That is simply stunning. That tells us that these 21 emotions are expressed in the same way by nearly everyone, at least in our culture.”
So what exactly do they look like? A little like these reaction GIFs…
1) Happy
2) Sad
3) Fearful
4) Angry
5) Surprised
6) Disgusted
7) Happily Surprised
8) Happily Disgusted
9) Sadly Fearful
10) Sadly Angry
11) Sadly Surprised
12) Sadly Disgusted
13) Fearfully Angry
14) Fearfully Surprised
15) Fearfully Disgusted
16) Angrily Surprised
17) Angrily Disgusted
18) Disgustedly Surprised
19) Appalled
20) Hatred
21) Awed
22) ???
Via The Guardian
