Abstract
This study examined the relationships between physical and semantic dimensions of facial expressions of emotion. Experiment 1 investigated the correlational structure of displacement of the feature points on a face. Participants were asked to produce six basic expressions of emotion of a schematic face. A factor analysis yielded two factors: "openness" and "slantedness" which were consistent with Yamada (1993). In Experiment 2, we created new facial stimuli, which varied on amount of openness and slantedness. Participants were asked to rate facial stimuli on Affect Grid (Russell, Weiss, & Mendelsohn, 1989). We found that the participants' ratings on pleasantness and arousal almost systematically changed along with the experimental manipulation.
