HEMIFACIAL ASYMMETRY IN EMOTION EXPRESSIONS

We examined asymmetry in posed facial expression of emotions: happy an d sad. Hemifacial composite photographs, left-left and right-right, we re prepared, and subjects rated these for intensity of expressed emoti on. Overall, left-left composites were judged to have expressed emotio ns relatively more intensely than the right-right composites. The sign ificant Sex x Emotion interaction revealed that female expressors were judged as more expressive than male expressors in expressing sad faci al emotion. Sex difference in expression of happy facial emotion was n ot significant.