{"id":7213,"date":"2019-05-22T15:54:26","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/action_unit\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:54:26","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:54:26","slug":"action_unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/action_unit\/","title":{"rendered":"Action unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<div>A term to describe the&nbsp;different facial muscles involved in an expression. The facial action coding<br \/>system (FACS) of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulekman.com\/\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.paulekman.com\/&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ekman and Friesen<\/a> (1978) gives detailed descriptions of&nbsp;all the changes in appearance that accompany each of 44 action units they&nbsp;identified in the face. &nbsp;Attempts have been made to automatically track&nbsp;facial action units by means of motion analysis systems.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>See Behavior&nbsp;system, Communication, Display rules, Facial expressions<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A term to describe the&nbsp;different facial muscles involved in an expression. The facial action codingsystem (FACS) of Ekman and Friesen (1978) gives detailed descriptions of&nbsp;all the changes in appearance that accompany each of 44 action units they&nbsp;identified in the face. &nbsp;Attempts have been made to automatically track&nbsp;facial action units by means of motion analysis systems. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/action_unit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Action unit&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}