Usually it is said that what we see we believe. But the recent study showed that what we believe is unusually seen by us. The study showed that perceptions of a person affect his judgment of other’s facial expression.

Research team found that our judgment of others is not unbiased but it is somewhere affected by our belief hence leading to misinterpretation of other’s gestures or emotions.

Psychologists from the US, New Zealand and France reached at the findings after analyzing response of study subjects to still photographs of faces computer-morphed to express ambiguous emotion.  

The study subjects were asked to rate these photographs as angry or happy. The same faces were interpreted by study subjects as displaying different emotions.

Co-author Jamin Halberstadt, of the University of Otago in New Zealand said: "It''s a paradox. The more we seek meaning in other emotions, the less accurate we are in remembering them."

He added that so once we interpret an ambiguous or neutral look as angry or happy, we later remember and actually see it as such.