Relationship of Mimic and Affective Characteristics in Verbal Comparison of Faces

Abstract

The results of the analysis of verbalizations obtained in the situation of verbal comparison of images of emotional expressions from the VEPEL database are presented. It has been shown that specific information about expression is quantitatively presented in the verbal comparison data. The analysis of verbalizations, performed using the tools of the perceived quality paradigm, made it possible to differentiate the features of expressions, presenting them in two types of verbal portraits: affective and mimic. Comparison of these two types of verbal portraits allows to interpret affective judgments in mimic terms, and vice versa. The verbal features included in mimic verbal portraits were compared with descriptions of mimic characteristics of basic expressions according to P. Ekman. It is shown that many of the features identified in the situation of verbal comparison coincide with the descriptions proposed by P. Ekman, who, however, enumerated them without indicating their relative value.