ARE SPONTANEOUS EXPRESSIONS AND EMOTIONS LINKED - AN EXPERIMENTAL TEST OF COHERENCE

We measured facial behaviors shown by participants in a laboratory stu dy in which a film was used to elicit intense emotions. Participants p rovided subjective reports of their emotions and their faces were reco rded by a concealed camera. We did not find the coherence claimed by o ther authors (e.g., Rosenberg & Ekman, 1994) between the displayed fac ial expressions and subjective reports of emotion. We thus concluded t hat certain emotions are not a necessary or sufficient precondition of certain spontaneous expressions.