When we look at someone's photo (especially his/her face), we can have any feeling. Maybe we can feel happy, sad, angry, like, dislike, love, peaceful, joyful, fear, and other feeling/ mood. We will feel another mood when we look at the other persons photo.
What factors determine this circumtenses? Can this way be used as one of the media to treat mental illness? Depression, schizofrenia, bipolar, etc.
When someone look at his/her favorit angel's photo or saint's photo maybe he/she can become more relax and tidy.
Maybe look into transference for why people feel something when looking at someone they don't know.
You might be interested in looking into approach/avoidance training (AAT) using social stimuli (faces) as an intervention for social anxiety. Certain mental disorders tend to be associated with an attention bias to emotional or negative stimuli.
Maybe see if there is something in the mindfulness literature that discusses soothing target stimuli (like your angel photo example).
There are surely several factors influencing the recognition of facial expressions, but one of them is the brain neuropeptide oxytocin (see e.g. Shahrestani S, Kemp AH, Guastella AJ. The impact of a single administration of intranasal oxytocin on the recognition of basic emotions in humans: a eta-analysis. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2013 Sep;38(10):1929-36. doi:10.1038/npp.2013.86 or Schulze L, Lischke A, Greif J, Herpertz SC, Heinrichs M, Domes G. Oxytocin increases recognition of masked emotional faces. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2011 Oct;36(9):1378-82. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2011.03.011.).
According the effect of oxytocin in depression or schizophrenia: yes, it also exists. The effect of nasally administrated oxytocin has been shown both in depressed individuals (Domes G, Normann C, Heinrichs M. The effect of oxytocin on attention to angry and happy faces in chronic depression. BMC Psychiatry. 2016;16:92. doi:10.1186/s12888-016-0794-9) as well as in patients with schizophrenia (Shin NY, Park HY, Jung WH, et al. Effects of Oxytocin on Neural Response to Facial Expressions in Patients with Schizophrenia. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2015;40(8):1919-1927. doi:10.1038/npp.2015.41).
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4822232/pdf/12888_2016_Article_794.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4839515/pdf/npp201541a.pdf
Someone's subperasaan determine what he/she feel when he/she look at someone's photo with such subperasaan expressed in the face.
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