This article mainly caught my attention because of the quote "there is profound agreement that the face, along with the voice, body posture and hand gestures, forecast to outside observers what people will do next." Later in the article Alan Fridlund, PhD, of the University of California, Santa Barbara, goes on to explain how the face affects our social interaction comparing it to a switch on a railroad track. Just this week I evaluated myself after being presented with a huge task at work with an extremly small time frame. My first nonverbal reaction was, like most people do, widen their eyes with amazement. But as I tried not to show this expression to a superior I felt more motivated that I could get this job done. Not allowing myself to get intimidated in front of them, did allow me to be successful later.
Friday, October 22, 2010
Nonverbal Reaction
http://www.apa.org/monitor/
This article mainly caught my attention because of the quote "there is profound agreement that the face, along with the voice, body posture and hand gestures, forecast to outside observers what people will do next." Later in the article Alan Fridlund, PhD, of the University of California, Santa Barbara, goes on to explain how the face affects our social interaction comparing it to a switch on a railroad track. Just this week I evaluated myself after being presented with a huge task at work with an extremly small time frame. My first nonverbal reaction was, like most people do, widen their eyes with amazement. But as I tried not to show this expression to a superior I felt more motivated that I could get this job done. Not allowing myself to get intimidated in front of them, did allow me to be successful later.
This article mainly caught my attention because of the quote "there is profound agreement that the face, along with the voice, body posture and hand gestures, forecast to outside observers what people will do next." Later in the article Alan Fridlund, PhD, of the University of California, Santa Barbara, goes on to explain how the face affects our social interaction comparing it to a switch on a railroad track. Just this week I evaluated myself after being presented with a huge task at work with an extremly small time frame. My first nonverbal reaction was, like most people do, widen their eyes with amazement. But as I tried not to show this expression to a superior I felt more motivated that I could get this job done. Not allowing myself to get intimidated in front of them, did allow me to be successful later.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Can You Recognize the Emotion?
Can you recognize an emotion when you see it? Click on the following link to try it out!
http://condor.depaul.edu/~lcamras/images/recogexp.htm
http://condor.depaul.edu/~lcamras/images/recogexp.htm
Innate or Learned Debate Video- Dr. David Matsumoto
There is ongoing debate about whether emotional facial expressions are innate or learned. Dr. David Matsumoto explains in this video why he thinks emotional facial expressions are innate. What do you think? Do you think they are inherited or are they learned?
This is a picture of Dr. David Matsumoto making a happy face
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Personal Experiment with Facial Expression and Emotion
Last week in my Psychology class we were studying Emotion and we briefly discussed facial expressions. My professor, Dr. Martin, listed 7 emotions on the overhead projector. The 7 emotions that he listed were: happy, sad, disgusted, angry, fearful, confused, and satisfied. After he showed us these emotions he went around the classroom and gave 7 students note cards that had an emotion written on it. He had the students who received the note cards make the facial expression that he or she felt best depicted the emotion on the card. The students made their facial expressions one at a time, while the card-less students wrote down what emotion he or she thought the students were expressing. Once this was completed Dr. Martin revealed which emotion each student had expressed. The majority of the class was able to identify the 7 different emotions to the student’s facial expressions. As one of the card less students, I found identifying the student’s facial expressions to be very easy. I was one of the many students to get all 7 correct. I learned that the reason that so many of us were able to easily identify the facial expressions with the correct emotion is because according to Paul Ekman's cross cultural findings in general, universally, people can identify 6 or 7 emotional expressions reliably. Ekman claims that the 7 universal emotional expressions are: joy, anger, fear, disgust, sadness, surprise, and contempt. I found this class exercise to be very interesting.
Learn About Displays of Emotion Through Facial Expressions
The purpose of this blog is digging deeper into facial expressions, specifically focusing on the various types of emotions expressed. Displays of emotion through facial expression is a key aspect of nonverbal communication. There are several different types of emotions that one can display, but it is how we interpret and recognize those emotions that stimulate our nonverbal interactions. Nonverbal communication is based upon the person in particular, but more importantly, it is influenced by the social and cultural contexts where he or she currently resides. There are certain facial expressions, happy and sad, for example, which are known to be basic worldwide displays of emotion across cultures. There are single facial expressions that should be associated with exclusive physiological effects. If one looks happy, he or she should feel happy by displaying that particular emotion. Each society has learned to practice these displays of emotion that have more or less become like a tradition to each individual culture. Displays of emotions in encoding and decoding that are consistent across cultures refer to smiling, laughing, weeping, frowning, and eyebrow flash.
There are multiple reasons behind why we choose to display the emotions due to the way we are currently feeling at that moment in time. There may be responses or actions that trigger our emotions and how we choose to demonstrate it. It is easier to recognize emotional expressions during face-to-face encounters, but there are certain facets, such as technology that can hinder this experience. It is hard to determine the single emotion behind a text message without a facial expression symbol, such as a smiley face. We rely heavily upon displays of emotion during non-verbal and verbal communication. When faced with a situation of stagnant text, humans find a way to incorporate emotion in order to recreate a visual for nonverbal communication. Facial expressions are a prime example of how human needs for communication, relationships, and information are a necessity upon the several phases of interaction.
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