PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Facial Feedback Hypothesis, Body Language, Amygdala
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Emotional expression: emotional expressions are observable signs of an emotional state (not symbols) Universality hypothesis: support for the universality hypothesis: Individuals with visual impairments that have never seen a human face smile similarly to seeing humans: 2-day-old infants produce disgusted facial expressions similar to those of adults. Isolated cultures evaluate wester(cid:374)ers" facial expressio(cid:374)s the same way that other westerners do: arguments against the universality hypothesis, relationships between different emotions are different across cultures. Deceptive expression: there are many reasons for which we may want to hide our emotions, we have various strategies for doing so: How to catch a fake: how to catch a fake, there are a number of ways to determine whether facial expressions are real or not, morphology. Certain facial muscles are resistant to conscious change (the reliable muscles: symmetry. Asymmetric facial gestures are often insincere: duration. Sincere facial gestures last between 0. 5 s and 5 s: temporal patterning.
