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Culture and Emotional Expression
The Ekman and Friesen study on Emotional Expression studied?
Studied people from around the world and their ability to identify emotions through facial expressions across cultures
Culture and Emotional Expression
The Ekman and Friesen study on Emotional Expression Concluded that?
They found that this ability seemed to transcend culture.
One other study on blind and deaf children showed
blind and deaf children showed they made the same facial expressions as we all do.
The Blind and Deaf emotion study concluded?
This shows the universality of emotional expression because it would have been impossible for them to have learned to express emotions in this way.
Charles Darwin points to the adaptive purpose of reading emotions because it was important to?
It was probably important to our survival to read the emotions of others.
We would want to stay away from angry people and move closer to people who are attracted to us.
What are Display Rules?
learned ways of controlling displays of emotion in social settings.
The effects of facial expressions on emotions study by Laird revealed?
when people are forced to smile they feel happy, when they scowl they feel angry
due to learned ways of controlling displays of emotion in social settings.
