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Exploring
Emotions |
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Voluntary and involuntary expression
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Can you fake
a smile?
In one of these pictures Paul Ekman
is trying to simulate a real smile. In the other he
is genuinely smiling. Can you tell which is which?
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In advertising
fake smiles are used to make us desire something. We think
the person — actually
a model — is really enjoying the food or getting their
wash cleaner than ever. The portrait photographer asks us to
say “cheese” so we will smile, i.e., looking like we are smiling.
Generating emotion
Paul Ekman's research observed a close connection
between facial expressions of emotions and changes in the body.
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Intentionally
make a facial that expresses anger. Can you notice
other changes to your physiology?
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When you intentionally make a facial expression,
you begin to have the changes in your physiology that accompany
the emotion
The face, it turns out, is not simply a means
of display, but also a means of activating emotion.
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Do you
think that simply
consciously smiling can affect the brain and cause
or influence happy behavior?
So you think that
frowning affects the brain, stimulating activity associated
with sadness.
Try smiling
to make yourself feel better.
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