Emotion And Emotion Of Non Verbal Communication

Science released an article entitled “Facial Expressions—Including Fear—May Not Be as Universal as We Thought”, written by Michael Pierce on October 17, 2016. In this article Pierce discusses how 50 years ago it was assumed that facial expressions were universal. However, it has been found that in the present day, this may not be the case. Expressions such as happiness, anger, sadness, fear, disgust, or hunger, were all assumed to be expressed the same way as well as interpreted the same way. A study was conducted in the Trobriand Islands, were Trobrianders were shown as series of photos with facial expressions. They were asked to describe the emotions they interpreted from the photos, the results were intriguing. Pierce (2016) describes how

Facial Expression: The facial expression such as happiness, sadness, anger and fear helps a lot in conveying a message. These facial expressions are similar all over the world but non- verbal communication and behaviour varies hugely between the cultures in the world.Since the look on a person’s face is noticed , before we hear ,facial expression contributes a lot in a successfully non-verbal communication .

Non-verbal communication consists mainly of the things people do with their body language. There are times where words are expressed and non-verbal communication could help emphasize the message. A few examples of nonverbal communication are hand gestures eye contact, facial expressions as well as tone and volume. I was given this assignment to observe a situation and take note of the nonverbal communication that occurred. I also had to observe whether the non-verbals were able to execute the message and if the behavior was acceptable.

| Facial expressions – Facial expression reveals a great deal about our feelings. A blank facial expression makes it much harder to interpret what is being said and makes it harder for the service user to understand the nature of the conversation.

The perception of emotions is an important topic to study because the ability to discern emotions plays a critical role in an individual 's cognitive growth, their reasoning, behavior idiosyncrasies and the essential key of survival. Perception is the a central element to emotions, meaning that countless emotions that an individual faces occur directly upon the perception of intensely expressive to a certain stimuli. We are aware that our mood affects how we perceive the emotions of those in our surroundings and the environments we are in, but also age has a big impact as well.

For this project we will be testing fifty test subjects on six pictures of the same person representing the six core emotions the people will be trying to identify the emotion that the person's facial expressions are representing. Unlike regular facial expressions that are pro longed micro facial expressions cannot be faked and they often appear and disappear as fast as 1/15 to 1/25th of a second. The face is best indicator of a person's emotions. Dr. Paul Ekman has done groundbreaking research on micro facial expressions. He has shown that facial expressions are universal and people everywhere in the world make and display the same emotions through the same facial expressions like people in the US make the same facial expressions for sadness as people in Papua New Guinea. Dr.Ekman also realized through his research that even blind people who have never seen a humans face in their whole life have the same facial expressions as people who have their vision for each emotion. There are six universal micro expressions : disgust , anger , fear , sadness , surprise , and happiness. It's important to be able to read these six basic facial expressions because if you can determine what a person's emotions are it can help you

O’Toole and Haxby’s model did not account for the extent to which the various face selective regions in the human brain classify different facial expressions. Zhang et al., 2016 used fMRI to determine how well face selective brain regions are able to decode different categories of

The Chapter “Cultural Variation in Emotion” discusses the following questions. Are emotions universal? If they are universal, how does cultural and socialization affect the expression of emotions? The chapter goes on to talk about how different experimenters attempt to answer these questions. It also talk about how different researches differ on opinion of these questions. It attempts to answer the question by saying that”... it is clear that emotion-relevant faces are interpreted with some consistency across cultures, suggesting a universal link between facial position and at least some aspect or correlate of emotion. However, it is also apparent that variation exist both within and across societies in the extend of tis consistency. This suggests at minimum that cultural expertise and socialization play some roles in the attribution of emotional meaning to facial expressions.” The chapter then goes on to compare and constrict individualistic cultures and collectivistic cultures, and how these cultures experience and express emotions differently.

The one that people tend to rely on the most to see how others truly feel about something are facial expressions. There are also five types of emotions that can be read on a human face throughout multiple cultures: disgust, sadness, happiness, fear, and anger (Izard, 1991; Rozin, Lowery, & Ebert, 1994). What makes this complicated is that multiple expressions can be mixed together and also at times, individual can mask how they are really feeling by using other expressions and emotions to cover them up for numerous

Are facial expressions of emotion culturally universal? This has been an ongoing debate since Darwin’s, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. He states that there is such a thing as a universality hypothesis, which claims, “all humans communicate six basic internal emotional states (happy, surprise, fear, disgust, anger, and sad) using same facial movements by virtue of biological and evolutionary origins” (abstract). However, there have been disagreements concerning this theory.

Most people are surprised to learn exactly how much information they communicated about themselves through their facial expressions. The intricacies of what one does with their the eyes, eyebrows, forehead, lips, tongue, teeth, and mouth while listening or talking combine to send some

Over this summer course I have learned a lot about communication. I learned how significant nonverbal and verbal communication is, along with listening. I never fully understood how big communication is in our daily lives. I now realize that it is a huge aspect of how we continue in our lives. This course has showed me different levels of communication.

Three cultures that have different interpretations or rules of facial expressions when compared to the United States may include; Japan, Puerto Rico or Hawaii I feel like you can tell so much but someone’s facial expressions. As we were growing up my mom would always say, “I can tell your lying, I can see it on your face”. I feel the same way about my children today. I can look at their face and their facial expressions say a lot. I can tell when they are happy, sad, worried or even lying. I read an article called a look into the way culture affects facial expressions. It was a very interesting read. Some things I learned regarding this subject from that article are; Japanese people look to the eyes for emotional signals while American’s look

Over the course of study, research has been done on the topic of Facial Feedback Hypothesis and there is evidence to support that there is a direct link between our facial activity and the expression of our emotions. The facial feedback hypothesis states that the nonverbal exhibition of facial muscles have a significant impact on emotional experiences (Zuckerman, Klorman, Larrance, & Spiegel, 1981). That is, the magnitude to which changes in a person’s emotional experience is altered depends on whether the facial muscles are strengthened or attenuated (Strack, Martin & Stepper, 1988). There are two facial muscles that is related to the inducing or dissuading of the expression of emotions. These are the Zygomaticus and the Corrugator supercilii

“Systematic research on the role of nonverbal behavior in social interaction has been common only in the past 20 to 25 years.”(Edinger and Patterson, 1983, p. 30).because that statement was published in 1983, it is apparent that the study of nonverbal behavior has been around for roughly 50 to 55 years. However, that is still a relatively recent amount of time compared to research in other science fields such as chemistry or biology. Despite the fact that this field is relatively recent there are many theories about our interaction with others. This paper will discuss the nonverbal expectancy theory along with two other theories, and describe how these theories can work together.