Expressing and Experiencing Emotion (Ch.10)

[Audio] Expressing and Experiencing Emotion. Expressing and Experiencing Emotion (Ch.10).

[Audio] Expressing and experiencing emotion happen through six main mediums or feelings. Anger, fear, sadness, disgust, joy, surprise. While expressing emotion isn't unique to humans, experiencing emotion is a unique characteristic we have since there is a variety of emotions and we possess the intellect and depth the perceive these emotions.

[Audio] Humans are not good at hiding emotions, while we may try to hide the truth, body language and facial muscles display emotions like nervousness and anxiousness. The brain is exceptional at detecting non-verbal emotions especially those that have to do with facial expressions. For example, women shown photos of men smiling were more likely to date them compared to men with neutral faces ( Young, 2021) I have always been intuitive to others' emotions, my friend was acting like he was good but I could tell by his eyes he wasn't. That night he planned on disappearing from home but I convinced him not to, all because of nonverbal expression of emotions..

[Audio] How does this apply to me? I have always been the type of person to keep to myself and not tell other about how I really feel. My family always taught me to be strong and have faith, but that only works for so long until your emotions pile up. It took a really bad day for my friend to notice how I felt even though I tried to keep a happy face. He told me he could tell by my eyes that I was upset, we talked it out and that really helped me out of a bad place. The intuition of my friend and himbeing in touch with his emotions helped me a lot..

[Audio] A study performed by a prestigious psychologist and former CIA interrogator, people who scratch or grip their neck are often lying and use it as a self comforting soothing gesture. In response to high stress, men are prone to tugging at their shirt collar, while women will lightly touch their neck ( Navarro, 2009).

[Audio] David Myers, author of exploring psychology and a respected social psychologists mentions that emotions are easy to spot even in a crowd of many people. He cites a study done by Dr. Paul Ekman and Dr. Pollack that exposes abused children to pictures of faces mixed 50% fear and 50% anger with one face being slightly morphed, the children were spot on with identifying the angriest face and perceived anger over fear(Pollack, 2002) . Body language plays a massive role in how children grow up and how they perceive authority..

[Audio] The brain has a difficult time from discerning deceit, so if the subject does not show any signs of physical uncomfortability, it is difficult to tell the truth. One study performed by Dr. Paul Ekman showed two people two images of a man smiling, only 54% were capable of knowing if the photo of the man was deceitful in nature.

References. Pollak, S. D., & Kistler, D. J. (2002). Early experience is associated with the development of categorical representations for facial expressions of emotion. PNAS, 99, 9072–9076. (p. 376) Ekman, P. (1994). Strong evidence for universals in facial expressions: A reply to Russell’s mistaken critique. Psychological Bulletin, 115, 268–287. (p. 378).