Essay On Facial Expression

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Personal History Statement I am astounded by the eccentricities of my curiosities; an Indian female student interested in the cross-cultural conceptions of ‘Emotions’. Coming from a diverse and a culturally rich country like India, the largest democracy in the world, I have experienced issues related to women’s disempowerment in more than one way. Lived experiences of sexual harassment are dismally very common. It is as if, when I interact with other women, there is a secret language- non-verbal communication, understood by all women. These unsaid words and repressed experiences point towards the vital and fundamental changes that our society at large needs to make.
For those, with an underdeveloped status and lack of language skills, who are not heard by a larger, more privileged audience, I would like to learn about their conditions from their non-verbal language, particularly facial expressions. I’d share the metamorphosis of my intellectual upbringing and curiosities in this essay. …show more content…

As my understanding of the theories of ‘emotions’ developed, my need to investigate the knowledge base in the meta-emotion philosophies grew. Currently, I am standing at a ground where even though the western concepts of psychology are widely appreciated by Indian scholars but there is a dearth of aboriginal work by female Indian scholars. In this light, I was delighted to read Dr. Dacher Keltner’s co-authored work on “Culture and Facial Expression: Open-ended Methods Find More Expressions and a Gradient of Recognition” (1999).
As a modern Pundit (Brahmin), I see my moral calling is in the recital of ancient Asian texts and the creation of a discourse of a universal language of emotions which may be neither exclusively western nor

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