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Facial Expressions & Social Exclusion

Fair or unfair? Facial cues influence how social exclusion is judged

People are often excluded from social groups. Whether uninvolved observers find this acceptable or not may depend on the facial appearances of those excluded. The exclusion of cold and incompetent looking people is more likely to be accepted. Ref. Source 6u.

Exclusion Social and Expressions Facial

How emotions in facial expressions are understood. New research reveals how well fearful facial expressions are perceived in peripheral vision. Although human vision has the highest resolution when we look directly at something, we see a much wider view of the visual world in our lower resolution peripheral vision. In fact, detecting signals of potential danger in our periphery - especially moving ones - is something our visual system is well adapted for. Source 1v.