Title: Facial Expressions

Source: Abelson and Sermat (1962)

Description: 
Dissimilarities of facial expressions for 13 situations.    
Abelson and Sermat (1962) asked 30 students to rate each pair of the 13
pictures with facial expressions acted by a woman on a 9-point scale with
respect to overall dissimilarity.  Dissimilarity was defined as 'a
difference in emotional expression or content'.  For each subject, 78
proximities resulted, which were then rescaled over individuals by the
method of successive intervals (Diederich et al., 1957).  The means of
these intervals were taken as the proximity data. The facial expressions are:

   1 Grief at death of mother          
   2 Savoring a coke                   
   3 Very pleasant surprise            
   4 Maternal love-baby in arms        
   5 Physical exhaustion               
   6 Something wrong with plane        
   7 Anger at seeing dog beaten        
   8 Pulling hard on seat of chair     
   9 Unexpectedly meets old boy friend 
  10 Revulsion                         
  11 Extreme pain                      
  12 Knows plane will crash            
  13 Light sleep