PSYC18H3 Chapter 4: Chapter 4. Communication of Emotions
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Emblems: nonverbal gestures that directly translate into words (i. e. the peace sign). Illustrator: a nonverbal gesture that accompanies our speech, and often makes it vivid and visual. Regulator: nonverbal behaviours that we use to coordinate conversation. Self-adapter: nervous behaviours people engage in with no seeming intention, as if simply to release nervous energy. Expressions of emotions tend to be fairly brief, typically lasting between 1 to 10 seconds. A polite smile does not accompany the experience of emotion might be exceptionally brief (less than a second) or very long (lasting throughout an unpleasant dinner party). Facial expressions involve involuntary muscle actions that people cannot produce when they feel like it, and cannot suppress, even when told to do so. Emotional expressions should have their parallels, or homologues, in the displays of other species. Darwin proposed three principles to explain why emotional expressions have the appearance that they do.
