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. 2020 Jul 29;11:1658. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01658

TABLE 1.

Used categories of the EMFACS.

Categories Explanations
(1) Activity Facial activity
(2) Primary affects Summary category of all primary affects (3–9)
(3) Anger
(4) Contempt
(5) Disgust
(6) Fear
(7) Sadness
(8) Surprise
(9) Duchenne smile Felt smile
(10) Social smile
(11) Possible smile
(12) Anger/disgust
(13) Fear/surprise
(14) Happy/fear
(15) Happy/contempt
(16) Happy/anger
(17) Happy/disgust
(18) Happy/surprise
(19) Possible anger
(20) Unspecific negative
(21) Possible fear
(22) AU 20 Fear fragment
(23) Illustrators (AU 1 + 2)

EMFACS, emotional facial action coding system; AU, action unit.