Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Paul Ekman's 6 facial expressions


Anger, fright, disgust, surprise, happiness and sadness

What is interesting to me is that as Ekman's studies show these facial expressions associated with some emotions are basic or biologically universal to all human beings. These face expressions occur naturally and are means of communications between all animals that can be understood by all animals.  


For example all humans know that when a dog looks like this his is not happy. 

Face-expressions is a type of picture thinking that enables the quickest communication. This type of communication does not have to be taught. 



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