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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Sci Public Interest. 2019 Jul;20(1):1–68. doi: 10.1177/1529100619832930

Table 6:

Culturally common facial configurations discovered using the reverse correlation method

Facial
Configuration		 AU
Description		 Associated Emotion Words –
U.K.		 Associated Emotion Words
- China
graphic file with name nihms-1021596-t0042.jpg 6+12+13+14 delighted, joy, happy, cheerful, contempt, pride joyful, delighted, happy, glad, feel well, pleasantly surprised, embarrassed, pride
graphic file with name nihms-1021596-t0043.jpg 4+20+24+43 fear, scared, anxious, upset, miserable, sad, depressed, shame, embarrassed afraid, anxious, distressed, broken-hearted, sorrow and sadness, having a hard time, grief, dismay, anguish, worry, vexed, unhappy, shame, despise
graphic file with name nihms-1021596-t0044.jpg 2+5+26+27 ecstatic, excited, surprised, frightened, terrified amazed, greatly surprised, alarmed and panicky, scared, fear
graphic file with name nihms-1021596-t0045.jpg 7+9+16+22 hate, disgust, fury, rage, anger disgusted, bristle with anger, furious, wild wrath, storm of fury, storm of anger, indignant, rage

Note. Facial configurations extracted using reverse correlation from 62 models of facial configurations. Red coloring indicates stronger AU presence and blue indicates weakest AU presence. Some words and phrases that refer to emotion categories in Chinese are not considered emotion categories in English. Modified from Jack et al. (2016) and reproduced with permission.