SIGNAL EMOTION

How our faces tell what we’re feeling.

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What are the 7 basic emotions?

Approximately how many different kinds of facial expressions are humans capable of making? What gives us the ability to make so many different facial expressions?

How good are you at spotting a fake smile?

What differentiates a genuine smile from a fake smile?

How many different types of smiles are there? Name them.

Does everyone have the ability to smile? Explain.

What are the 7 basic emotions?

Contempt Anger Sadness Happiness Disgust Fear Surprise

What are the 7 Basic Emotions?

• Happiness • Sadness • Anger • Fear • Surprise • Disgust • Contempt

Approximately how many different kinds of facial expressions are humans capable of making?

Thousands!

What gives us the ability to make so many different facial expressions?

Our facial muscles!

How many facial muscles do we have?

44

What is special about facial muscles?

• Most skeletal muscles attach to your bones, but your facial muscles attach to other muscles or to your skin. • The result: a tiny contraction in one of the muscles in your face pulls your facial skin and changes your expression. • By contracting your facial muscles in different ways you can produce countless different expressions.

How good are you at spotting a fake smile?

✓ GENUINE!

What differentiates a genuine smile from a fake smile?

• Fake smiles are brought about by the cheek muscles which pull the corners of the mouth outwards.

• Fake smiles can be performed at will because the brain signals that create them come from the conscious part of the brain.

Genuine Smiles

• Genuine smiles are generated by the unconscious brain, so are automatic. • When people feel pleasure, signals pass through the part of the brain that processes emotion (the amygdala). • As well as making the mouth muscles move, the muscles that raise the cheeks also contract, making the eyes crease up, and the eyebrows dip slightly.

How many different types of smiles are there?

At least 6

interested loving happy amused embarrassed coy

Types of Smiles

‘Prosocial smiles’: person is trying to bond with someone else: • Interested • Loving • Embarrassed Self-directed smiles: • • • Happy Amused Coy

Does everyone have the ability to smile?

• No! • Moebius syndrome is a rare disorder that paralyzes most of the facial muscles. • People with moebius syndrome cannot smile, nor make any facial expressions at all!

Emotion and culture • http://youtu.be/-PFqzYoKkCc (Universal Emotion movie) • http://www.paulekman.com/

Face Training Demo • https://face.paulekman.com/face/default.aspx