But those formulas are wide-open arenas for complex emotions: for pain, humor, anger, lust, mourning, cruelty, remorse, resentment, exaltation.
So "having to portray the complex emotions of a protective father was not a stretch for him," she adds.
Although Advene offers time stamps with the precision of the movie frame rate (25 frames per second), pre-tests revealed that the temporal accuracy of human observers for complex emotion indicators, like a developing facial expression, is much coarser.
You certainly don't write songs like "Who Knows Where the Time Goes?" without a gift for nailing strokes of complex emotion to the wall.
Whether it is mainly a raw drive or a complex emotion is a question that has bedeviled psychiatry for decades.
One number addressed romance, a key blues subject, but that dance for couples only hinted at complex emotion, and only when Ms. Dorrance was dancing.
Grief is a complex emotion all right.
With a complex universal emotion for its theme; a network of contemporary artists from across the world (Benin, Mali, London, New York); and a range of media that encompasses painting and text-messaging, the show has, to riff on Ms. Lippard's title, few aesthetic boundaries and more than occasional political overtones.
On Clairo's SoundCloud page, songs like "2 Hold U" and "Get With U" display an innate knack for complex emotions rendered so casually as to be destabilizing.
Individual differences in the ability to detect facial emotions accurately have been documented, especially for complex emotions such as fear and anger.
