PSYCH 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Facial Expression, Paul Ekman, Causative
29 Nov 2016
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Emotions are complex reactions that engage our bodies and minds at multiple levels. Reactions that engage our minds and bodies but also environmental ques. Our emotional systems have evolved to promote survival and social communication. Emotional reactions have several interrelated properties, expressed in the following graphic. How we think, judge, act, move, feel. Expressive behavior of the face -> facial reaction. Also part of producing of the emotion. Our thought process are tightly engaged with any given emotion we are having. All goes to emotion and emotion can go back to those 3. Emotion itself feeds back to action, thinking, physiology. Complex reaction of feedback loops between all of the levels -> intersectionality - Evidence is strong that the above 6 emotions (happiness, sadness, anger, disgust, fear, surprise) are recognized as universal , as existing across cultures and relatively independently of cultural contexts of expression. Everyone , doesn"t matter the language barrier, they can understand them.
