Sentence examples for sad facial expression from inspiring English sources

Raising the inner corner of the eyebrows away from the nose was perceived as a sad facial expression.

At the beginning of the experiment each neutral face (n = 40) was randomly paired with either the happy or the sad facial expression of the same actor.

The nine indicators are (a) noisy breathing, (b) negative vocalization, (c) content facial expression, (d) sad facial expression, (e) frightened facial expression, (f) frown, (g) relaxed body language, (h), tense body language, and (i) fidgeting.

For example, using a sex discrimination task, Blair et al [ 43] found that increasing intensity of sad facial expression was associated with enhanced activity in the left amygdala and right temporal region.

To account for multiple testing a conservative significance level of p ≤ .01 was used for correlation and regression analyses and computations of Steiger's Z. Correlation analyses yielded a positive association between the total CTQ score and attentional bias toward sad facial expression (see Fig.  1).

Keep a calm, sad facial expression.

In both males and females, a brief exposure to sad facial expressions impaired subsequent performance on a targeting task.

Instead, functional brain activity to sad facial expressions may be a more accurate diagnostic marker of depression [2].

Sad facial expressions are socially relevant, emotional cues which engage a distributed network of regions [4] that show an abnormal response during an acute depressive episode [5] [6].

The functional neuroanatomy of implicit processing of sad facial expressions showed an accuracy of 86% in identifying individuals in an acute depressive episode [2], while verbal working memory had a more limited but still significant diagnostic accuracy [3].

Our results indicate an association between childhood maltreatment and sustained attention toward sad facial expressions.