Experiment: work in progress

For the past couple of weeks I have been doing my experiment on several of my subjects. The results are very interesting and intriguing, but I want to share them after I finish all of my experiments. I plan to create a video (more on the artistic side) and an experiment report (the scientific side). I gathered some very valuable information. I also feel that I have learned way more knowledge implementing this process that reading all of those books about facial expressions.

Regarding the process of each of my experiments, I first start off by asking some simple questions like:

What is your name?
Where are you from?
Have you lived anywhere else before?
Do you know anything about facial expressions?
Do you believe in the universality of facial expressions?

Then, I show them the placards with facial expressions that I have prepared. I both record the video of them describing the emotion and have a paper form recording.

The paper form that I created looks like this:

Name:

☐ Male                         ☐Female

☐German                              ☐American                ☐Italian

☐Grade 10                  ☐Grade 11

Further description

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

P1

A1	A2	A3	A4
B1	B2	B3	B4
C1	C2	C3	C4

P2

A1	A2	A3
B1	B2	B3

P3

A1	A2	A3
B1	B2	B3

P4

A1	A2	A3
B1	B2	B3

P5(1)

A1

B1

C1

P5(2)

A1

B1

C1

I always ask the subjects to identify the same group of facial expression in order to test my hypothesis. I think so far the results are very interesting. I plan to finish all my experiments by the end of this week and finish my experiment report, stage 4 and final report during spring break.