EXPRESSED EMOTIONS

Monica Villatoro

Vocab to learn

*Throughout the ppt the words will be bold and italicized*

EmotionsFacial CodesPrimary AffectsEmotional Blends

Psychologists Involved

Charles Darwin Theory of Facial Expression

He argued that human facial expressions have theirevolutionary origins by using facial codes.

Facial codes is the system of emotional signals displayed by altering the positions of the facial muscles around the eyes, mouth and nose.

Psychologists Involved Continued

Paul Ekman, Carroll Izard, and Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt All convinced most researchers that facial

expressions do indeed reflect universal human emotions because Darwin’s theory of Facial Expression was disputed for many years.

(From left to right: Ekman, Izard, and Eibl-Eibesfeldt)

What is Expressed Emotions?

It is emotions that are resented by facial expressions and non-verbal communication.

Facial Expressions

Darwin’s theory suggests that when an emotion is experienced a neural program sends messages to the face causing specific muscles to contract and others to relax.

This creates facial expressions that can lasts as little as a fraction of a second to several seconds long.

Types of emotional experiences that show themselves in facial expressions suggest that there are a limited number of specific emotions called Primary Affects. The expressions are the following:

Happiness Sadness Surprise Fear Anger Disgust

Surprise

Characteristics Eyebrows are raised and curved Eyes are opened wide Jaw is dropped Both eyelids are pulled apart Lips are relaxed

Fear

Characteristics Eyebrows are raised Eyes are opened wide Mouth is open but tense Lower eyelid is tense

Disgust

Characteristics Eyebrows are lowered Lower eyelid is raised Lower lip is raised Nose wrinkle

Anger

Characteristics Eyebrows are lowered Lips are pressed together Both eyelids are tense Brows are drawn together

Happiness

Characteristics Eyebrows are relaxed Corners are raised Lips are drawn back Cheeks are raised

Sadness

Characteristics Inner corner of eyebrows are raised Inner corners of eyelids are raised Corners of the lips are turned down

Facial Expressions Continued

Expressions do more than communicate emotion. They also amplify the felt emotion and signal the body to respond accordingly.

Emotions, then, arise from the interplay of cognition, physiology, and expressive behaviors.

Although some gestures are culturally determined, facial expressions, such as those of happiness and fear, are common the world over.

In communal cultures that value interdependence, intense displays of potentially disruptive emotions are infrequent.

People often experience more than one primary affects at a time. This causes people to show an Emotional Blends. Which is a combination of the facial codes associated with the experienced emotions.

Non-Verbal Communication

Much of our communication is through the body’s silent language.

Psychologists have studied people’s abilities to detect emotion, even from thin slices of behavior. Research has found that women are typically more sensitive to nonverbal clues than men.

Masking Emotions

Depending on the number of facial muscles involved in the facial expression and the complexity of their movements, it may take a second or more for the facial expression to be fully formed.

Older children and adults have learned to put on a false facial expression in social settings .

Much of our communication is through the body’s silent language. Psychologists have studied people’s abilities to detect emotion, even from thin slices of behavior. Research has found that women are typically more sensitive to nonverbal clues than men. Much of our communication is through the body’s silent language. Psychologists have studied people’s abilities to detect emotion, even from thin slices of behavior. Research has found that women are typically more sensitive to nonverbal clues than men.

Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EsV21_-Xhg

Quiz

After going over the ppt facial codes are most likely to connect with what other vocabulary word?

How do these to correlate to one another? What are the six primary affects? How do the two different types of expressed emotions differ

from each other? How old can people be in order to mask their emotions? Validate this statement “You can express two emotions at

the same time” How can people understand nonverbal communication to

understand emotions? Which gender tends to de more emotional towards non-

verbal communication? Name one situation in which people need to mask their

emotions. How many psychologists studied expressed emotions?

Citation

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