PSYC 3100 Lecture 27: PSYC3100 Lecture 27: PSYC3100: November 18, 2015
18 Nov 2015
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People talk about these emotions in terms of their (i) function and (ii) communicative ability. Ex. disgust - based on food sources typically (those which are going to harm you) . (i) may do something useful for your survival scrunch up nose and make nose smaller to make noxious fumes less likely to enter your system. Link to ekman on liars video (did not watch) Says he can use his facs to identify those who are lying from those who are telling the truth. If the expression of basic emotions in universal, and innate, and automatic, and. Then one may not be able to control those (micro) expressions, even as one is able to mask them (both for culturally speci c purposes and for behaviour such as lying) One set of behaviours that have evolved . Are undercut by other behaviours that have evolved: the facial expression of emotion. Fooling and deceiving people to better promote our ends.
