SELF-OTHER PERCEPTION OF THE INTENSITY OF FACIAL EXPRESSIONS OF EMOTION - DO WE KNOW WHAT WE SHOW

Participants' self-reports of the intensity of their facial expressive responses to an amusing stimulus were compared with judges' ratings i n 2 studies. In Experiment 1, 24 men and 24 women who were alone and a ssigned to either a spontaneous or facial attention condition perceive d their facial behavior to be significantly more expressive than judge s' ratings indicated it had been. In Experiment 2, 36 men and 36 women who presumed themselves to be under observation were assigned to an u ninstructed, pose, or communicate condition. Self-reports of expressiv e responses to an amusing stimulus again significantly exceeded judges ' ratings in the first 2 conditions but not when participants were tol d to communicate their feelings.