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Anna Tcherkassof is a University Professor at the University of Grenoble Alpes, affiliated with the Laboratoire Inter-universitaire de Psychologie (LIP/PC2S). Her research focuses on nonverbal communication, emotions, and emotional facial expressions within a socio-cognitive framework. She leads the DynEmo project, developing a unique database of spontaneous and dynamic facial expressions that has positioned her laboratory as one of the few in France studying facial expressions of emotions from a spontaneous and dynamic perspective.
Her research interests center on the process of recognizing facial expressions and the nature of facial information used to decode emotional messages. She approaches facial expressions as a privileged access route for studying non-verbal communication of emotions, with particular emphasis on spontaneous and dynamic expressions occurring during real social interactions, especially intercultural ones. Her work integrates eye tracking analysis and joint analysis of eye tracking and EEG signals to complement standard subjective judgment methodologies.
Dr. Tcherkassof has developed a theoretical model based on embodied cognition that challenges traditional psychological conceptions of emotions and their expressions. Her research takes a constructivist epistemological framework, offering new perspectives on behavioral and sociocognitive processes. Her recent work has examined the effects of mask-wearing on emotional communication, particularly in early childhood settings, which has garnered significant media attention during the pandemic.
Her publications demonstrate consistent contributions to understanding emotion-facial expression links, with recent work exploring cross-cultural aspects, neural correlates of emotion processing, and methodological innovations in emotion recognition research. Her interdisciplinary approach bridges psychology, neuroscience, and computer science through projects like BrainGazeDynemo and Oudjat.
Dr. Tcherkassof actively engages with the public through media interviews and public conferences, including her 2018 presentation at the 'Avenue centrale' public lecture series titled 'What do we really know about facial expression of emotions?'
She leads several significant research projects including BrainGazeDynemo (studying visual processing of emotional facial expressions), Cosmethics (examining cosmetics at the intersection of health and beauty), and the DynEmo corpus creation project funded by the French National Research Agency. Her collaborative work extends across multiple institutions including Gipsa-lab, LPNC, DCM, CERAG, CHUGA, ESRF, GRESEC, and SYMMES.
Her laboratory, LIP/PC2S, represents a major asset in French psychology research as few laboratories in France focus on emotions as their primary object of study, and even fewer examine facial expressions from the perspective of their spontaneous and dynamic aspects in natural contexts.
