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Paul Ekman on Evolution and the Inescapability of Emotions
Showing posts with label Emotions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Emotions. Show all posts
Monday, April 2, 2012
Sunday, March 18, 2012
An Article You Should Checkout: 4 Ways to Shrink the Power of Negative Emotions
Great self help article. It is nice to understand emotions and the difference between emotions and moods.
http://blogs.psychcentral.com/bounce-back/2012/03/4-ways-to-shrink-the-power-of-negative-emotions/◦
Friday, February 24, 2012
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
New Issue of Journal of Nonverbal Behavior
New Issue of Journal of Nonverbal Behavior.
Volume 36 Number 1 is now available on Springer Link.
An article I found interesting:
Secrets and Lies: Involuntary Leakage in Deceptive Facial Expressions as a Function of Emotional Intensity
Darwin (1872) hypothesized that some facial muscle actions associated with emotion cannot be consciously inhibited, particularly when the to-be concealed emotion is strong. The present study investigated emotional “leakage” in deceptive facial expressions as a function of emotional intensity. Participants viewed low or high intensity disgusting, sad, frightening, and happy images, responding to each with a 5 s videotaped genuine or deceptive expression. Each 1/30 s frame of the 1,711 expressions (256,650 frames in total) was analyzed for the presence and duration of universal expressions. Results strongly supported the inhibition hypothesis. In general, emotional leakage lasted longer in both the upper and lower face during high-intensity masked, relative to low-intensity, masked expressions. High intensity emotion was more difficult to conceal than low intensity emotion during emotional neutralization, leading to a greater likelihood of emotional leakage in the upper face. The greatest and least amount of emotional leakage occurred during fearful and happiness expressions, respectively. Untrained observers were unable to discriminate real and false expressions above the level of chance.◦
Friday, January 20, 2012
An Article You Should Check Out: The Role of Emotion in Predicting Violence
The Role of Emotion in Predicting Violence
In this months FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin.◦
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
An Article Your Should Read: Counting the beats: a critique | Comment | Research
Counting the beats: a critique | Comment | Research
This article challenges certain assumptions about Emotions, that those in the research and academic fields may be taking for granted.
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Monday, October 3, 2011
Body Language Expert Observes Dr. Murray On Trial
Body language expert Mark Edgar Stephens talks to Dr. Drew and dissects Dr. Conrad Murray's moves in court.◦
Sunday, November 7, 2010
New Emotional Tool For Researchers: Affectiva Q Sensor
The Affectiva Q Sensor is a wearable, wireless biosensor that measures emotional arousal via skin conductance, a form of electrodermal activity that grows higher during states such as excitement, attention or anxiety and lower during states such as boredom or relaxation. The sensor also measures temperature and activity.◦
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Most Amazing Facial Expression of the 2010 Year- Subtle Amusement
NAANTALI, FINLAND. JULY 21, 2010. Russian president Dmitry Medvedev and Finland's president Tarja Halonen walking on the premises of the Kultaranta, the summer residence of the President of Finland.
I look at a great deal of images and this one is a gem! It is the 1 in every 10,000 where we can clearly see the emotion, yet it is not clearly documented in the facial expressions field. Part of it is the amusement is mostly seen in the eyes, the way there is a certain intensity and closing of the eyelids to focus attention. There is the subtle way the lips are clearly downward, but yet at the same time turning upward; and pulled back forming the lines on the side of his cheeks. Everything is subtle, but there is nothing subtle about his emotion.◦
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life
"Dacher Keltner is professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, director for the Greater Good Science Center, and coeditor of "Greater Good" magazine. His research deals mainly on pro-social emotions, power, and moral reasoning.
"Keltner extends the insights of Charles Darwin about short emotional language as a very important clue to understand our origins. He was also a follower of Paul Ekman and Wallace Friesen. He follows their methodology to quantify milliseconds movements of muscles in the face.
"Following further the research of Paul Ekman in New Guinea related to the universality of human facial expressions, Keltner regards emotions as symbols of our pledge to others and the basis of our most vital moral/ethical insight." - A.Ch.F. Weizmann, Ph.D., Haifa University
“A landmark book in the science of emotions and its implications for ethics and human universals.” —Library Journal, starred review In this startling study of human emotion, Dacher Keltner investigates an unanswered question of human evolution: If humans are hardwired to lead lives that are “nasty, brutish, and short,” why have we evolved with positive emotions like gratitude, amusement, awe, and compassion that promote ethical action and cooperative societies? Illustrated with more than fifty photographs of human emotions, Born to Be Good takes us on a journey through scientific discovery, personal narrative, and Eastern philosophy. Positive emotions, Keltner finds, lie at the core of human nature and shape our everyday behavior—and they just may be the key to understanding how we can live our lives better. 60 photos.◦
Friday, March 5, 2010
"Good Morning" and "How are you?"
Research conducted by Professor Albert Mehrabian of the University of California, Los Angeles, 55 per cent of the emotional message in face-to-face communication results from body language. 7% is the actual words chosen.38% is the tone of voice. It becomes the 7%-38%-55% rule, supposedly denoting how much communication was conferred by words, tone, and body language. The reason I say "supposedly" is because the actually percentages are debatable; what is clear there is a great deal going on beyond the words. Yet I rarely mention how the tone of the voice, does in fact convey emotion.
Take the next couple of days and make it a point to greet the people you interact with on a daily basis and pay attention to the minuscule differences in their tone when you greet them. Often times it is just paying attention to differences in tone that makes all the difference.◦
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Holding Back the Emotion: Freestyle Skiing
Men's Aerials Freestyle Skiing silver medalist Jeret Peterson of USA during the medal ceremony at the BC center for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games, Vancouver, Canada, 26 February 2010.◦
Friday, February 26, 2010
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Does Darwin Illuminate Emotion & Spirituality? Speaking is Ekman and Keltner (Full Program)
Emotion, Expression, Darwin, and Spirituality, and Heroic Gene are all covered in this long video.◦
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
The "Emotion" of Empathy
Why we wince and gasp in empathy with TV heroes by -- WHEN watching horror films or thrillers, people wince and gasp when seeing characters hurt or terrified. When watching an exciting football game, people feel surges of elation or disappointment, just like the players...
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Tuesday, December 22, 2009
APA Journal of Emotion Volume 9, Issue 6 Released
There are some interesting papers that relate to the content of this site. While you will need a subscription to see them on the APA site, I'm including the title and authors so you can search for them on Google Scholar/online.
Are specific emotions narrated differently?
Page 751-762
Habermas, Tilmann; Meier, Michaela; Mukhtar, Barbara
Can Duchenne smiles be feigned? New evidence on felt and false smiles.
Page 807-820
Krumhuber, Eva G.; Manstead, Antony S. R.
The voice conveys specific emotions: Evidence from vocal burst displays.
Page 838-846
Simon-Thomas, Emiliana R.; Keltner, Dacher J.; Sauter, Disa; Sinicropi-Yao, Lara; Abramson, Anna◦
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Andre Agassi on the Today Show
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I find Andre a great subject to study in this interview. I absolutely get stoked whenever I see someone like him who gives such small and subtle expressions. Even his picture on the cover of his book shows two subtle emotions (sadness and disgust) take a look here.
The only negative thing about the video is there are many times when they break away from the participants and show photographs from his past... and the camera is in too tight so we do not see his hands all that often.
As you watch the video watch for the following things:
- Swallowing
- Kicking foot when asked questions
- Biting bottom lip
- Bottom lip licking
- Small shaking of his head yes and no
- Hot spot when he talks about not being abused with his hands in front of his chest
- What is rehearsed (why he wrote the book) compared to other times
- Subtle disgust when asked about drug use
- Real smiles when speaking about his kids, his real smiles are one of the reason he is personable.
Have fun and enjoy the video.◦
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Holding Emotions In...
Nov 10 2009
Army Spc. Chas Clark, who was wounded during a previous attack in Afghanistan, speaks on behalf of Spc. Jared Stanker, one of seven U.S. Army soldiers honored during a memorial service at Fort Lewis, Washington, Tuesday, November 10, 2009. The soldiers were killed by an IED in Afghanistan on October 27, 2009.
Take a look at the soldier in the background who is holding his hand in front of his mouth. I often see this immediately after a stressful or violent episode, here we see the soldier feeling internal stress and subconsciously he is controlling emotion.
Our mouths are the source of sound and it is the way we communicate. Subconciously we cover our mouths to control the emotion...even though there is not a direct correlation between our mouths and emotions... it does work.◦
Friday, October 23, 2009
The Office Season 6 Ep.7 The Lover
The Office is a guilty pleasure. This season I have noticed something exciting, the body language of the acting has been spot on, many television shows are hiring body language experts and/or acting teachers that match the script to specific gestures and facial expressions and this takes the acting and the show to the next level. It really works well in the style of this show.
One example of this is a meeting they had in the office, watch their facial expressions as the meeting unfolds. Their facial expressions are well thought out and the different cast members are showing opposite expressions at the same time, often times you will have one character showing happiness while another is showing sadness; they are effectively conveying emotions on both ends of the continuum.
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Monday, October 19, 2009
Dr. David Matsumoto Explains Characteristics of Basic Emotions
Dr. David Matsumoto is the Director of Humintell. Dr. Matsumoto is an expert in the field of facial expressions, microexpressions, gesture, nonverbal behavior, emotion and deception. He is also is also a Professor of Psychology at San Francisco State University and Director of the Culture and Emotion Research Laboratory.◦
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