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Reading Facial Expression to Understand Human Emotions: Micro-Expressions Training Videos (METV): The New Tool for Experimental Economics

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Selected Issues in Experimental Economics

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Micro-expressions are reliable indicators of individuals’ true emotions and experience. Therefore, the ability to read and understand micro-expressions is important to individuals’ social functioning and in many different professional areas. The goal of this study was to test the relationship between micro-expression recognition ability and emotional intelligence (EI), which can be perceived as the ability to function well in social life. The study used micro-expressions training videos (METVs), a new tool for detecting micro-expressions on faces filmed on videos, and the SIE-T test, which is a measure of emotional intelligence (Matczak et al. 2005). Social ability skills were measured through self-declaration. Forty students participated in the study. The results indicated a positive correlation between EI (SIE-T) and the ability to recognize facial expressions (METV). Moreover, METV performance was correlated with certain dimensions of social skills (declaration).

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  1. Center for Body Language, Antwerp, Belgium

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  2. Center for Psychological Research, The Robert B. Zajonc Institute for Social Studies, Stawki 5/7, 00-183, Warszawa, Poland

    Dominika Maison

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Wezowski, K., Maison, D. (2016). Reading Facial Expression to Understand Human Emotions: Micro-Expressions Training Videos (METV): The New Tool for Experimental Economics. In: Nermend, K., Łatuszyńska, M. (eds) Selected Issues in Experimental Economics. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28419-4_10

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