The difference between perceiving individual-level emotions versus group-level emotions is builds upon the distinction between analytic versus holistic perception.

The social skills that are impaired by alcohol abuse include impairments in perceiving facial emotions, prosody perception problems and theory of mind deficits; the ability to understand humour is also impaired in alcohol abusers.

The data gathered is analogous to the cues humans use to perceive emotions in others.

In particular, she has taken a look at the cultural differences in perceiving facial emotions (Masuda, Ellsworth, Mesquita, Leu, Tanida, and Van de Veerdonk, 2008).

The autistic child, Ms. Johnson said, perceives things in fragments and is often unable to follow anything sequential, besides having difficulty perceiving emotions and facial expressions in others.

Perhaps the 'cat's inability to understand her feelings stemmed from the very clarity with which he and his kind perceived emotions.

Additionally, music training can help individuals perceive emotions in speech which may increase their ability to interpret human behavior.

Perceiving emotions - the ability to detect and decipher emotions in faces, pictures, voices, and cultural artifacts-including the ability to identify one's own emotions.

For Gallagher the minds of others are understood primarily through our interactive relations and our ability to directly perceive their intentions and emotions.

This suggests that with experience and age, we become more accurate at perceiving true emotions across various age groups.