PSYC18H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Natya Shastra, Weggis, Aesthetic Emotions
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Chapter 4 communication of emotions everyone is flirting, all the time: givens and perper in singles bars watching men and women interact. Initial attention-getting phase (arms, flashy watches), recognition phase (gaze, provocative brushes), keeping-time phase (mirroring actions) Smiling: different smiles, with different meanings smile to be polite, hide inappropriate feelings, express romantic attraction, signal weakness (single words like smile fail to adequately describe the language of nonverbal communication. Studies of the universality of facial expressions: darwin proposed three principles to explain why emotional expressions have the appearance that they do. 1) principle of serviceable habits: expressive behaviours that have led to rewards will re-occur. 2) principle of antithesis: opposing states will be associated with opposing expressions. 3) principle of nervous discharge: excess undirected energy is released in random expressions like face touches and leg jiggles: darwin claimed expressions of emotion = human universals tomkins, ekman and izard categorized it into:
