PSYC 1103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Facial Feedback Hypothesis, Facial Expression, Microexpression
1 Apr 2019
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Psyc 1103 lecture 21: emotion (factors in emotion, fear, happiness) Emotion : a feeling or affect that involves the following: Basic emotions are expressed through innate and universal facial expressions. Facial feedback hypothesis : states that our facial expression influences the feeling itself (both a byproduct and cause of a feeling) Assumes that involuntary facial movements give people information on how they are feeling, leading to certain emotions. Participants watch cartoons while holding a pencil in their teeth (smiling) or in their teeth (frowning) Those who were smiling (holding pencil in teeth) rated the cartoons as significantly funnier than those who were frowning. Supports the james-lange theor y states that a physiological response is followed by a cognitive labeling of physical response, which leads to feeling the appropriate emotion. Facial expression is used to detect deception (i. e. looking for micro-expressions of fear) Basic emotions are expressed the same (universally) across cultures.
