100860 Study Guide - Final Guide: Real Face, Fore People, John Bowlby
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Darwin emphasised on the continuity in emotion between humans and other primates saying that basic emotional expressions are innate and are produced and recognised automatically. This came about from his observation of deafblind children who exemplify similar facial crying expressions. Darwin attributed this innateness to evolution in that it is adaptively advantageous to express our emotions readily so others can read them easily. At the same time, a scientist named bell proposed that emotions were a divine gift rather than a result of evolution and without saying, this idea phased out. So in summary, emotions are associated with different behaviour (expressive) and different expressions are interpreted to be different emotions (communicative). Darwin showed the expressive nature of emotions, ekman and friesen attempted to show the communicative nature, that is, certain basic emotions are universally recognised and understood to signify the same psychological state of the individual.
