This study examined whether a two-dimensional structure of emotion could be found under the condition of perceptual ambiguity, using a stereoscopic procedure. Two expressions of depicted emotion were presented simultaneously to each different eye of the subjects. Multidimensional scaling yielded results suggesting that the dimensional structure such as valence and arousal was evident even under such an unusual condition as that of the current study.
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