The psychology of facial expression / edited by James A. Russell, José Miguel Fernández-Dols.

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.

xiii, 400 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

What does a facial expression mean? / James A. Russell and José Miguel Fernández-Dols -- Methods for the study of facial behavior / Hugh L. Wagner -- Emotions and facial expressions : a perspective from differential emotions theory / Carroll E. Izard -- Facial expressions as modes of action readiness / Nico H. Frijda and Anna Tcherkassof -- The new ethology of human facial expressions / Alan J. Fridlund -- Animal sounds and human faces : do they have anything in common? / Peter Marler and Christopher Evans -- Yawns, laughs, smiles, tickles, and talking : naturalistic and laboratory studies of facial action and social communication / Robert R. Provine -- A neurobehavioral approach to the recognition of facial expressions in infancy / Charles A. Nelson and Michelle de Haan -- A dynamic systems approach to infant facial action / Daniel S. Messinger, Alan Fogel, and K. Laurie Dickson -- A componential approach to the meaning of facial expressions / Craig A. Smith and Heather S. Scott -- Spontaneous facial behavior during intense emotional episodes : artistic truth and optical truth / José Miguel Fernández-Dols and María-Angeles Ruiz-Belda -- Is the meaning perceived in facial expression independent of its context? / José Miguel Fernández-Dols and James M. Carroll -- Reading emotions from and into faces : resurrecting a dimensional-contextual perspective / Jmaes A. Russell -- Facing others : a social communicative perspective on facial displays / Nicole Chovil -- Faces in dialogue / Janet Beavin Bavelas and Nicole Chovil -- Faces : an epilogue and reconceptualization / G.P. Ginsburg.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.