Your Face Mirrors Your Deepest Beliefs—Predicting Personality and Morals through Facial Emotion Recognition

Future Internet

Cengiz Cetinkaya¹  Andrea Fronzetti Colladon²  Lukas Ripperger³  Maximilian F. Kaiser³  Tim Schaefer³  Erkin Altuntas⁴  Peter A. Gloor⁵ 

[1] Department of Data Science, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, 6002 Lucerne, Switzerland;Department of Engineering, University of Perugia, 06123 Perugia, Italy;Department of Information Systems, University of Cologne, 50923 Cologne, Germany;Galaxyadvisors AG, 5000 Aarau, Switzerland;MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA;

关键词: artificial intelligence;    facial emotion recognition;    personality;    moral values;    risk-taking;    forecasting;   

DOI  :  10.3390/fi14010005

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Can we really “read the mind in the eyes”? Moreover, can AI assist us in this task? This paper answers these two questions by introducing a machine learning system that predicts personality characteristics of individuals on the basis of their face. It does so by tracking the emotional response of the individual’s face through facial emotion recognition (FER) while watching a series of 15 short videos of different genres. To calibrate the system, we invited 85 people to watch the videos, while their emotional responses were analyzed through their facial expression. At the same time, these individuals also took four well-validated surveys of personality characteristics and moral values: the revised NEO FFI personality inventory, the Haidt moral foundations test, the Schwartz personal value system, and the domain-specific risk-taking scale (DOSPERT). We found that personality characteristics and moral values of an individual can be predicted through their emotional response to the videos as shown in their face, with an accuracy of up to 86% using gradient-boosted trees. We also found that different personality characteristics are better predicted by different videos, in other words, there is no single video that will provide accurate predictions for all personality characteristics, but it is the response to the mix of different videos that allows for accurate prediction.

【 授权许可】

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