Abstract
The ability to interpret emotional cues has been argued to play an important role in maintaining successful relationships and healthy psychological functioning. Here, we focused on comprehension of emotional expressions of the eyes. The ability to recognize complex emotions and mental states from the eyes relates to 'theory of mind'. This stusy investigated descriptions of smile of the eyes and face. We created a composite stimulus by joining the eyes part of face expressed an emotion (ex. neutral) with the other parts of face expressed another emotion (ex. smile). The results suggest that the description of eyes and facial smiling is the mouth part of face. However, the recognition of eyes smiling is better at detecting smile of the eyes part than the facial smile recognition.
