Fleur Helmink

Erasmus MC | Erasmus MC · Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/Psychology

Emotional facial expressions critically impact social interactions and cognition. However, emotion research to date has generally relied on the assumption that people represent categorical emotions in the same way, using standardized stimulus sets and overlooking important individual differences. To resolve this problem, we developed and tested a t...

Our perception and representation of emotional facial expressions critically guides social interactions and has a profound impact on social cognition. However, much of the emotion research to date is potentially flawed by relying on the implicit assumption that all people represent categorical emotions in the same way, using standardised stimulus s...