Identify Thomas the Tank Engines expression

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Identify Thomas the Tank Engines expression
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Instructions

• For each slide please write the word that best
  describes Thomas the Tank Engines expression,
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• 1) Happiness 2) Surprise 3) Anger
• 4) Sadness 5) Fear 6) Disgust/contempt
• Or there is an option
• None of these/ Dont know

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• There are 18 slides in total

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• Thank you for taking part
• Images from
• http//www.myfavoritetoys.com/autism.php
• 6 basic emotional expressions
• http//www.paulekman.com/

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Paul Ekman

• The 6 basic emotions are happy, sad, angry,
  afraid, surprise and disgust.

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• These six emotions are universally recognized and
  universally expressed through the same facial
  features.

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Sex differences

• Recognition of Emotional Expressions (Thayer
  Johnsen, 2000)
• Females are better than males recognizing
  emotional expressions.
• Females recognize emotions equally well from male
  and female faces.

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Electronic emotions encyclopaedic Baron-Cohen
et al. (2005)

• Used a thesaurus to identify every word in the
  English language that describes an emotion.
• There were 412 human emotions (excluding
  synonyms).
• virtually all emotions could be assigned to one
  of 24 different groups.

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24 emotions

• Afraid, angry, bored, bothered, disbelieving,
  disgusted, excited, fond, happy, hurt,
  interested, kind, liked, romantic, sad, sneaky,
  sorry, sure, surprised, thinking, touched,
  unfriendly, unsure, wanting.

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Examples of Afraid emotion

• Afraid, consternation, cowardly, cowed, daunted,
  desperate, discomforted, disturbed, dreading,
  frantic, intimidated, jumpy, nervous, panicked,
  shaken, terrified, threatened, uneasy,
  vulnerable, watchful, worried.

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Implications

• There are deficits in emotional processing in
  autism
• There are different ways to categorise emotions
• A basic, universal set is ideal for AI
• Transmitted through the face is also useful for
  AI to detect emotion
• Implications for transmission of emotion