They found that he had no difficulty recognizing happy, fearful, angry, sad, and surprised expressions.
We have to learn to recognize happy when we see it, no matter how fleeting or small it may be.
The negative effect of video gaming on empathy has also been scientifically proven; Dr. Gary Small at UCLA has shown using MRI brain scans that young adults were able to identify happy faces faster than angry faces, but playing a violent video game before the facial recognition experiments made them much slower in recognizing happy facial expression.
In the first (Hexagon) task [ 26], participants were asked to recognize happy, sad, angry, fearful, disgusted, and surprised facial expressions from morphed images.
Mean errors in recognizing happy, sad, surprised, mad, and neutral faces and VAS anxiety ratings while viewing happy, neutral, mad, and scared faces were skewed and analysis was performed on both untransformed and logarithmically transformed data.
In a study of undergraduate students, short allele carriers of the 5-HTT gene were more accurate in recognizing fearful affect but less accurate in recognizing happy affect than long allele carriers [ 10].
Considering age with sex interaction, older females performed better than older males in recognizing fearful prosody, and young females had a higher performance in recognizing happy prosody than young males.
WHERE TO STAY Recognizing that happy children make happy parents, several San Francisco hotels have done away with the prisonlike cots and are instead featuring kid-centric amenities like crayon-colored bunk beds, toy chests and video games.
Those friends, a couple of whom reunite annually in Hawaii with the Obamas, said in interviews that they hardly recognized the happy-go-lucky Barry Obama that they knew from Mr. Obama's account of his childhood in "Dreams From My Father," his memoir of struggling with his mixed-race identity.
