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Can you tell if someone is cooperative just by looking at their face?

Eric Barker
June 3, 2010

Previous research has suggested that the spontaneous display of positive emotion may be a reliable signal of cooperative tendency in humans. Consistent with this proposition, several studies have found that self-reported cooperators indeed display higher levels of positive emotions than non-cooperators. In this study, we defined cooperators and non-cooperators in terms of their behavior as the proposer in an ultimatum game, and video-taped their facial expressions as they faced unfair offers as a responder. A detailed analysis of the facial expressions displayed by participants revealed that cooperators displayed greater amounts of emotional expressions, not limited to positive emotional expression, when responding to unfair offers in the ultimatum game. These results suggest that cooperators may be more emotionally expressive than non-cooperators. We speculate that emotional expressivity can be a more reliable signal of cooperativeness than the display of positive emotion alone.

Source: “Emotional expressivity as a signal of cooperation” from Evolution and Human Behavior, Volume 31, Issue 2, Pages 87-94 (March 2010)

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Title Can you tell if someone is cooperative just by looking at their face?
Author Eric Barker
Date June 3, 2010 6:12 PM UTC (13 years ago)
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