Social-Skill

Beyond forced choice: hyper-realistic AI faces reveal a four-cluster perceptual geometry of emotion

Forced-choice paradigms in facial emotion perception research require observers to commit to a single label and discard any simultaneous activation of related categories that participants might otherwise express. We introduce a multi-select rating paradigm in which 112 participants rated each of 52 facial-expression stimuli on 13 emotion categories using continuous 0-to-10 sliders, alongside a separate authenticity slider. Stimuli were generated using OpenAI's DALL-E 3 from an orthogonal...