Facial Action Coding System

these two things are not connected. Despite the arguments discussed in “The Story of My Body”, a person’s physical identity is however linked to identity, which is further talked about in “The Naked Face”. Being able to read other’s body language and facial expressions are really important for us as people to understand each other and many of these people don’t realize how important this is. “The Naked Face” is an essay by Malcolm Gladwell about

Paul Ekman is the scientist who started the facial expression movement, he discovered the six basic emotions happy, sad, anger, disgust, fear and surprised in which he says are universal. He used the Facial Action Coding System which is a system to code facial expressions. Many use the FACS in test related to emotional expressions such as for kids, adults and those who have a psychological disorder. The six basic emotions and others are coded with Action Units that are muscle or muscle groups that

marriage and how negative facial expressions impact the outcome of marital relationships. In 2001, John Gottman, Robert Levenson, and Erica Woodin analyzed multiple studies on emotion in marriage in a journal article titled, “Facial Expressions During Marital Conflict”. In Gottman and Levenson’s 1983 study, they watched the interaction between 79 couples in 15 minute conversations about

competitive game paradigms (one in which the confederate was fair and the other in which the confederate cheated). These sessions were videotaped and later observationally coded based on sadness, anger, and happiness through facial expression, verbal inflections, and nonverbal actions (Hubbard, 2001, 1428). Half of these children were rejected, with the other half being sociometrically average and half of the children were deemed aggressive by their peers, with the other half being non aggressive. Hubbard

express a full range of feelings of love, hate, fear, etc. Emotional numbing is usually tested/evaluated through self-report, and is especially very hard to check among young children. The experimenters conducted a pilot study to explore the use of facial expression ratings in response to a comedy video clip to evaluate emotional ability or likelihood to do something in response to something else among preschool children directly exposed to the Great East Japan Earthquake. This study included 23

The main point of the article was to determine facial expression of pain intensity in endotracheal suctioning patients who were unresponsive, in a critical condition, and have no way of communicating what their pain level is. The facial expression shows patient’s respond to pain. The study took a place at Virginia Commonwealth University Health system, the authors recruited 50 patients who were unresponsive, and cannot make any body movement. Most of the 50 sample participants were African American

language communication. In simple words, emotion means the rapid appraisal of the personal significance of the situation, which prepares people for action. For example, happiness, interest, surprise, fear, anger, and sadness are the six basic emotions in humans (Berk, 2012); people can easily identify one’s emotional state by observing his or her facial expression in many situations. Although the expression of emotion is universal, much research shows that emotional development can vary quite a bit

has been called emotion regulation (Gross, 1998). Emotions occur in a variety of settings and they can activate us to action or deactivate us into complacency. Anger may make us take action against an injustice. Fear may make us more alert. Sadness may make us withdraw from. Shame may make us conceal our self. Delight, interest and curiosity may mobilize us to move towards an action. Indeed emotions can deeply affect our personal and social lives, benefiting us in many ways but sometimes emotions may

Discuss and evaluate the research on mirror neurons and their role in the sensorimotor system and other cognitive processes? It has been suggested that within the neural network of the inferior parietal cortex and the prefrontal cortex residing in the right hemisphere, there is a system that plays a special role in interpersonal awareness (Decety & Sommerville, 2003). In developmental psychology, it is proposed that, because Theory of mind tasks activates neurons in the medial prefrontal cortex

Cognitive processes involved with face recognition To human beings, facial recognition is not only essential for identification of persons in the social context, but also a vital social tool. There are various reasons why facial recognition process is a vital to human beings. Facial recognition serves an essential purpose of identifying members within our society; as a result, we are able to select those that we can socialize with that aid our survival in society. For instance, the males are