Darwin’s publication of The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals theorized that facial expression and emotional states follow one another (Pinel, 2009). Darwin suggested that emotion is to be evolution based. An example of Darwin’s theory relates to threat displays in which an angry facial expression might accompany a hostile emotional state as this may be seen in disagreements (Pinel, 2009).…
Emotion promotes survival of the species, emotional responses are instinctive and universal, rather than learned and culture-specific…
Some of the examples of facial expressions is with how different cultures display content and disgust. Depending on the culture they show disgust in different ways. They use examples from Charles Darwin to back up their claims on body language. "Your own body language reveals your feelings and meanings to others" (Related materials 2014).…
The interaction of emotional and arousal to motivation was gathered in 1884 and 1885 from William James and Carl Lange. James and Lange believed a person’s emotions occur because of Psychological events that they suffer from. For instance, if a person is the victim of a tragic event, this can cause post-traumatic stress syndrome. This cause’s fear from that movement on and at times causes the person to withdraw from the event or anything pertaining to it due to fear.…
Facial expressions are essential when communicating in person. This is mainly due to the fact that facial expressions can often times set the tone of a conversation and helps the sender and receiver understand each other when communicating. For example, if the sender is confessing a fear to the receiver, he or she might understand that the receiver is understand the communication by his or her facial expression. If the receiver’s facial expression is saddened, the sender understands the receiver is listening. If the receiver is laughing about the confession then the sender may know that the receiver is not taking the confession seriously.…
Emotions: Emotions are inner which means that they arn't as obvious to other peole as your physical characteristics but that doesnt mean that people carnt work out your emotions as facial expressions and body language can often display emotions, Not everyone will display emotions the same way as you may display emotion yourself. Some emotions are Anger, love/acceptance, enjoyment/happiness/joy, fear, sadness and disgust. For example someone whos sad may cry and find comfort from other people but also someone that is sad may just keep it to themselves and want to be alone.…
First, I am going to look at the James-Lang theory of emotion, which was proposed only 10 years later than the Charles Darwin theory. This theory states that your brain interprets specific physiological responses as emotions (James & Lang, 1887). Simply meaning that, you first experience the physiological response, which makes you feel a certain emotion, for example, you are sad because you are crying. Even though this theory was developed individually by the two psychologists it is interesting that they came up with the same idea around the same time. William James explained: “My thesis on the contrary is that the bodily changes follow…
Face could show wide range of emotion from happy, optimistic, joyful to aggressive, anxious, sad and negative.…
People’s reactions allow you to understand how you, someone else or something else have made them feel. By observing an individual’s eye contact, body language and the tone in which they speak, you are able to understand how that person is feeling and therefore allowing you to think about how you should react and…
What are the possible links between facial expressions and emotion? One link is arousal, which is the level of activity or preparedness for activity in an organism. Intense contraction of facial muscles, such as those used in signifying fear, heightens arousal.…
For example, when a character smiles or laughs the audience instantly knows that the character is feeling happy and feel happy along with them. The best way of judging how someone is feeling is by reading the emotions on their face. For instance, when a character is feeling scared, they show fear in their eyes. The audience can see this fear, and therefore become scared themselves. Minority Report encapsulates the idea of using facial expressions to convey how John Anderton feels about targeted advertising. When John Anderton is surrounded by different advertisements all trying to sell him different items, his body language shows that he is uncomfortable. This is evident in his fast pace and darting glances. However, his expression of fear shows his discomfort in this form of…
Some people may use verbal communication, body language and facial expressions to express how they feel.…
Sophocles designs his plays to instruct his audience members to behave morally correct. People’s actions are ruled by their emotions (jealousy, suspicion, anger, pride, and love) and it leads to negative effects for them. But when acting in a sage demeanor, it gives evidence to a person’s character. Sophocles writes his characters to be ruled by their emotions and to teach people to behave in a prudent demeanor. Sophocles designs his plays to have the people of authority act in an immorally correct fashion.…
One of the most important concepts of humanity is Interpersonal communication. Our communication skills vary from one person to the next. There are many ways that we communicate in society with one another. Communication consists of verbal or nonverbal communication. Each individual has a unique style to communicate with society that it’s made up of diversity. Emotions are powerful feelings that may change the emotional well-being of a person. Emotions range from the feeling of joy, happiness, fear, sadness, anger, hate. Feelings will define the happy life journey of one person or the destruction of another.…
Most facial expressions are readily visible, Both types can positively or negatively reinforce the spoken word and convey cues concerning emotions and attitude.…