COMPONENTS AND RECOGNITION OF FACIAL EXPRESSION IN THE COMMUNICATION OF EMOTION BY ACTORS

This article addresses the issue of the communication of emotion by ac tors. In Study 1, the facial behavior of 6 actors portraying emotions as felt or unfelt were analyzed with the Facial Action Coding System. Results indicated that the portrayals of felt emotions were closer to the expression of genuine emotion than the portrayals of unfelt emotio ns for 3 of the 6 emotions under investigation. Study 2 examined the d ecoding of actors' portrayals from facial behavior. Decoders were foun d to be very accurate in recognizing the emotional category but not in judging the encoding condition.