Inferring an emotional state from cues such as facial expression, voice, behavior and context. Accuracy depends on a justified criterion for the state and on the response alternatives supplied by the task.
Identifying fear from available information, such as facial expressions. Performance depends on which diagnostic features are sampled as well as on how they are interpreted, and need not measure the observer's own subjective fear.[ref]
A mechanism for impaired fear recognition after amygdala damage by Ralph Adolphs and others. Nature 433, 68–72; patient SM, eye-region information and explicit fixation instructions
A procedure in which an observer selects an emotion interpretation from specified alternatives. Above-chance performance supports discrimination among those alternatives under that task; it does not establish that the same categories would be produced spontaneously without prompting.
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