... INTERACTIONS In this experiment it was being investigated if congruity of facial expressions is related to the enjoyment of social interactions. Facial expressions are an important tool in our ever day life in expressing emotion in our every day social interaction, and although there has been research into emotions and expressive congruency there has been little research about a relationship between the two particularly in a context of a real social interaction. Ohira and Kurono (1993) found that displaying facial expressions to a hypothetical target person whose behaviour was either hostile or friendly pushed the impression formed into congruent directions with the facial expression, whereas concealing a facial expression had no affect on impression formation. Similarly Thayer and Schiff (1969) showed that observer's judgements of the friendliness/hostility of an animated interaction were affected by facial expressions as well as the motion patterns of the 'individuals' in the interaction. Congruity of facial expressions produced ...

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