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The Language of Faces
How Culture, Psychology, and Social Context Shape Our Expressions
If you're curious about how AI could use this kind of nuanced understanding of facial expressions, check out"Smile Like You Mean It: Driving Animatronic Robotic Face with Learned Models." But before you get too fired up about how we might be socializing each other into these elitist biases, check out the latest research suggesting that toddlers as young as 14 months pick up on, and preferentially engage with, wealthier individuals. Ekman’s work on core expressions gives us a biological base, but nonverbal dialects and insights from cognitive psychology remind us that culture and learning play huge roles.
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