Many researchers have tested people's ability to recognize emotions from facial expressions. Why do these studies underestimate our ability to judge other people's emotions?
a. Many studies have asked observers to match the expressions to a list of choices.
b. Ordinarily we consider other information such as context and posture
c. The faces shown in the experiments gave relatively weak expressions.
d. Most experiments asked the observers to identify the expressions quickly.
b
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