School of Applied Social Sciences, De Montfort University, The Gateway, LE1 9BH, Leicester, UK; These authors contributed equally to this work.
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara, 251 Ucen Drive, Santa Barbara, CA, USA; These authors contributed equally to this work.
Trends Cogn Sci. 2018 May;22(5):388-399. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2018.02.006. Epub 2018 Mar 12.
Based on modern theories of signal evolution and animal communication, the behavioral ecology view of facial displays (BECV) reconceives our 'facial expressions of emotion' as social tools that serve as lead signs to contingent action in social negotiation. BECV offers an externalist, functionalist view of facial displays that is not bound to Western conceptions about either expressions or emotions. It easily accommodates recent findings of diversity in facial displays, their public context-dependency, and the curious but common occurrence of solitary facial behavior. Finally, BECV restores continuity of human facial behavior research with modern functional accounts of non-human communication, and provides a non-mentalistic account of facial displays well-suited to new developments in artificial intelligence and social robotics.
基于信号进化和动物交流的现代理论，面部表情的行为生态学观点（BECV）将我们的“情绪面部表情”重新构想为社交工具，作为社交谈判中 contingent action 的先导信号。BECV 提供了一种外部的、功能主义的面部表情观点，不受西方关于表情或情感的观念的束缚。它很容易适应面部表情多样性、其公共语境相关性以及奇特但常见的孤立面部行为的最新发现。最后，BECV 将人类面部行为研究与现代非人类交流的功能解释联系起来，为人工智能和社交机器人的新发展提供了一种适合的非心理主义面部表情解释。
