Paul Ekman And Friesen's Study

The activity, Emotion Charades, covers areas of emotional and social development. The use of emotional development is evident throughout the exercise. The activity focuses around the idea of emotions. During the activity, the children undertake three major steps helping the growth of emotion learning. A student at the front of the class is given an emotion card in which he or she is unable to see (angry, confused, annoyed, etc.). Firstly, the class will have to recognize the emotion card. While interacting with each other, they are then asked to act out and perform the emotion to the classmate who has the card. For the final step, the person guessing must identify the emotion that the class is demonstrating. Social development is shown during

The concepts that I can apply from this article to my daily life are that certain emotional vocalizations are group specific and this is due to the cultural norms. Being Hispanic, my culture has created a standard of what is culturally acceptable and what is not. This idea is tied to the emotional expressions for male and female members. In regards to emotions, we have created the idea that females are allowed to be more expressive with their emotional vocalizations, while males should refrain from vocalizing certain emotions. The people of my cultural accept this because we have been taught to recognize this standard as acceptable. This is where the idea of social learning comes in play. When it comes knowing our emotions and how to

The book progresses from the introduction and the research on facial expressions of emotion to the six emotions being taught and then to the practice portion to the conclusion. The part of the book that stood out the most against the rest of the book was the part where the authors discussed who this book was for. Although this book seems like a scientific study or a guide the authors make it clear that this book is for everyone. In the first chapter titled Introduction the authors make several subtitles addressing certain people. For example, one subtitle reads, “this book is for psychotherapists, ministers, physicians and nurses, trial lawyers, personnel managers, salesmen, teachers, actors. …”. Other subtitles include “this book is also for job applicants, loan seekers, costumers, voters, jurymen. …” , “this book is for friends, spouses, parents, lovers, relatives. …” and “this book is for you alone”. Interesting enough this book is for everyone. It is an extremely educational book that could help people of all ages understand and recognize certain facial

“Emotions are the cornerstones of our social worlds, affecting our interactions with others in countless ways” (Soto, Levenson, and Ebling, 2005). The domain of emotion is vast with many aspects to investigate and discover. Research suggests that there are basic emotions of anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise and also more complex emotions such as contempt, embarrassment, pride, and shame (Tracy & Robins, 2008). Two areas of interest in the literature culture (e.g., Tsai, Levensen, & McCoy, 2006) and gender (e.g., Hess, Adams, & Kleck, 2004).

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

These sources of knowledge brought to discussion many subjects around our emotions, such as fear, proud, anger, kindness. We also talked about our capacity to be aggressive, to be empathetic, to be sexual, to imagine, to create explanations

This can relate to life. By helping us understand why we react differently than others around us. Like some people think broccoli is disgusting, but I personally enjoy it. We all have different emotions, but we all go through things in life.

The research began by monitoring the brain and asking candidates to identify the human face emotion. The research went thoroughly as planned and gave many variations of answers that can now be studied. Later on they determine that, “The teens mostly used the amygdala, a small almond shaped region the guides instinctual or “gut” reactions,while the adults relied on the frontal cortex,which

In the Matsumoto et al. (2009) article they conducted a study in which they wanted to see if one’s emotions can be changed over time by displaying it in both a cultural and universal way. They used Olympic athletes to see how their emotions were displayed over time by putting their emotional reactions into different categories and seeing the number of times they are used in that athlete’s country (Matsumoto et al., 2009). A photographer was used to take pictures of the athletes when their match was over and when the winner was announced (Matsumoto et al., 2009). The researchers discovered that emotions were culturally influenced and shown that population density played a key part within these events (Matsumoto et al., 2009). Also the results

One major limitation in this study is that there was a female experimenter in the room asking the children the questions. This could influence the students in how they respond because the experimenter’s face might not remain neutral. If they know for certain they got a question right, they can look at her face and maybe find pride or happiness; helping them identify the emotions to the pictures. A way to correct this limitation is by administering it through a computer or hiding the experimenter’s facial expression with a surgical mask. van de Pol et al (2015) argued that “there is evidence that women are more competent in decoding subtle emotional expressions…”. Another reason why this is a limitation is because females “are considered as caregivers…” due to these children might find it easier to talk about emotions and not be ashamed to identify them (van der Pol et al., 2015).

Ekman himself has contributed large amounts of innovative information in the world of psychology, but rather than look at how he contributed, let us first see who contributed and influenced his ideas throughout the many years of psychology.

Let’s talk about the fact that people need to learn how to deal with their emotions, this is not currently taught in our homes or schools…. At least not to the capacity that it should be, most people do not know HOW to process their feelings and THAT needs to change.

Emotions play a vital role in our social world, including our behavior, intentions, order, and keeps our social distances regulated. Different cultures develop norms to what equals as appropriate and inappropriate emotional behavior. What constitutes as a desirable behavior in one culture can be undesirable in another and vice versa.

 In study one, their goal was to, “establish the hypothesized relation between majority emotions and felt acceptance and rejection by a deviant group member.” (Heerdink). The participants had to imagine themselves in the selected group to calculate their emotional response to see if they felt accepted or rejected from the group. For this study, they had one hundred people participate, both females and males. Then each participant was randomly appointed one of the four emotional reactions. Which were, anger, happiness, disappointment, or neutral. Next, the participant was given a vignette that described the group’s situations and what the majority's emotion was. However, the majority’s emotional response was manipulated. In the

Chapter 3 explores the concept of universally shared basic emotions, an idea that was first advanced as a theory by Charles Darwin. Paul Ekman and Jakk Panksepp studied the concept of