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The relationship between emotional intelligence (EI) and emotional creativity (EC) is ambiguous: results of experiments show that individuals with high EI may have low EC scores and vice versa. In addition, the question of the top-down influence of these constructs on lower-level perception processes is poorly understood. Faces from the P. Ekman database with basic expressions were selected as stimuli. Composite faces were additionally created for the experiment, in which the upper part of one expression was combined with the lower part of the same face, but with a different expression. A total of 38 stimuli were selected (2 actors X 6 basic expressions + 13 composite expressions). In the first part of the experiment, the subjects (N=57) were presented with one of the faces for 1 second. After that, a list of 32 emotions from R. Plutchik's theory appeared on the screen. The subjects were instructed to select the emotion(s) that most accurately describes that person on the screen. The subjects were told that they could choose any number of emotions. In the second part of the experiment, the same stimuli were presented, but the task was different. The instructions were as follows: «Think about the situations in which a person can have such a face and type your answer using the keyboard. You are not limited in the number of situations». Then the participants took an emotional intelligence test (TEI, Sergienko et al., 2019) and filled out an emotional creativity questionnaire developed by J. Averill (ECI, Valueva, Ushakov, 2010). ECI scores were not related to the number of created situations, their creativity or the number of words used to describe them. The average number of invented situations is occurred to be more associated with EI. The average number of invented situations was significantly positively associated with Tree 3 "Understanding emotions" (r (57) =.346, p=.008), Spearman's test.