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Intention and authenticity in the facial expression of pain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 August 2003

Mitchell S. Green
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4780 msg6m@virginia.edu www.darwin.clas.virginia.edu/~msg6m

Abstract

Williams and the many studies she considers appear to assume that voluntary amplification in facial expression of pain implies dissimulation. In fact, the behavioral ecology model of pain expression is consistent with amplification when subjects in pain are in the presence of others disposed to render aid, and that amplification may well be voluntary.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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