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Facial Behavior

Facial Behavior. Chapter Four. The human face is a primary tool used for transmitting emotional expression Our emotions and the facial expression of those emotions are so closely connected as to be inseparable

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Facial Behavior

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  1. Facial Behavior Chapter Four

  2. The human face is a primary tool used for transmitting emotional expression • Our emotions and the facial expression of those emotions are so closely connected as to be inseparable • The face and eyes are also important because they help us to manage and regulate our interactions with others

  3. Facial expressions through natural selection Inborn characteristics For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made . . . My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. . . . Ps. 139: 13-16 Natural Selection vs. Creation

  4. External Factors • Environment • Social rules • Culture

  5. SADFISH Sadness Anger Disgust Fear Interest Surprise Happiness SCADFISH Sadness Contempt Anger Disgust Fear Interest Surprise Happiness Innate and Learned

  6. Culture Specific Differences • Cultures differ concerning circumstances that elicit certain emotions • Cultures differ about the consequences that follow certain emotional expressions • Different cultures have different display rules that govern the use of facial behavior, which their members must learn

  7. Facial Management Techniques • Masking • Intensification • Neutralization • Deintensification

  8. Masking • Involves repression of the expressions related to the emotion felt and their replacement with expressions that are acceptable under the circumstances • In some cultures, expression of negative emotions is more taboo that it is others

  9. Intensification • Accomplished by exaggerating what we feel • In some cultures, such as those of the Mediterranean countries, sadness or grief responses are commonly exaggerated

  10. Neutralization • Essentially eliminate any expression of emotion

  11. Deintensification • Occurs when we experience feelings that our culture has taught us are unacceptable • Learning to control one’s expression of emotion takes caring, skill, and practice

  12. Styles of Facial Expressions • The Withholder Style – seldom have facial movement. • The Revealer Style – reverse of withholder style. Always show their true feelings. • The Unwitting Expressor – believes he or she is doing a good job of masking true feelings when, in fact, he or she unknowingly leaks information about the actual emotion that is being experienced.

  13. Styles of Facial Expressions • Blanked Expressors – have ambigous or neutral expressions even when they believe they are displaying their emotions. • The Substitute Expressor – substitutes one emotional expression for another. • The Frozen-Affect Expressor – manifests at least part of a particular emotional expression.

  14. Styles of Facial Expressions • Ever-Ready Expressors – tend to display one particular emotion as the initial response to almost any situation. • Flooded-Affect Expressors – flood their face constantly with a particular emotion.

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