20 Different Face Expressions Across Culture

20 kinds of facial expressions (freepic)

YOGYAKARTA - The expression of the human face is a window of the soul, a reflection of the emotions and thoughts that cross our minds. More than just smiling or wrinkled forehead, it turns out that there are 20 kinds of facial expressions that play an important role in communication.

In this article, we will dive into this rich and complex world, explore some common facial expressions, and understand the nuances implied behind each minim.

A publication written by Jeffrey Brooks through the hume.ai page, reveals how many different facial expressions are in the data, and quantifies exactly how many of these expressions have the same cross-cultural meaning.

Research found that there are 28 different types of facial expressions shared across cultures (different ethnic groups). Then twenty-one types of facial expressions have the same main meaning in all five cultures, and the remaining seven have the same main meaning in two cultures or more.

Emotions and mental states associated with people with different facial expressions 63% are maintained across cultures (which is very high considering that the concept of emotion itself can be different between culture and language).

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21 different types of facial expressions that have the same main meaning, which are expressed using 21 identical emotional concepts (or combinations of concepts) or direct translations in all five countries, including:

Research is conducted by visualizing the average facial motion associated with each of the 28 dimensions found by combining representative minimies in each culture. Then the concept of emotions that burdens every dimension in each country is carried on the corresponding image.

The model architecture allows researchers to avoid linguistic bias, which is a complicated problem when conducting experiments and training machine learning models with data from various cultures.

In addition, the researchers also compiled a model in such a way that the average emotional assessment in each culture (evaluated in three separate languages) was issued separately.

Then because the model is not given the translation of words from various languages to each other, the relationship found between the words used in different languages suggests that the concept is used similarly to describe the same facial expression.

Thus, it can be concluded that the dimensions that are in accordance with "happy" in one country can be found as "difference" in other countries, and if the same face modulation in fact has a cross-cultural meaning.

In fact, the researchers found several cases where the same emotions were deduced from several facial expressions.

The research approach also shows that there are no other mappings among certain facial and emotional actions, but there are several cases where the same facial expressions can convey different emotions to different individuals or cultures.

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