Unmasking The Face by Paul Ekman and Wallace V. Friesen is about faces and feelings. They show the blueprints, of a volunteer named Patricia, of what facial expressions for specific emotions look like. They explain the key aspects of what you should look for to discover the emotion the person is showing. Many mistakes are made when trying to read the face. Faces show many signals for one message and often times the expressions last only a few seconds. When trying to identify the emotion, you may look at the wrong signal. Ekman and Friesen explain different experiments they did to discover the key facial expressions for surprise, fear, disgust, anger, happiness, and sadness. The theme of this book is that knowledge of facial expressions can …show more content…
Surprise is the shortest-lived emotion. It only lasts a few seconds. If you have to think about whether or not you’re surprised, then you aren’t surprised at all. Many different things, such as an unexpected party thrown just for you, can show surprise. Ekman and Friesen explained how if surprise lasts longer than a few seconds, it is no longer surprise. Once you believe it is still lingering, you are actually processing the event and deciding how you feel about it. It casts doubt on what happened and can either make you happy or lead you to a state of shock. Times that I thought I was still surprised, I really wasn’t and I find that to be very interesting. Surprise is shown in your face when the eyebrows are arched causing the forehead to wrinkle up, jaw drops open, and eyes grow wider. This book taught me how to better understand facial expressions. Even though most facial expressions are micro-expressions, they come and go very fast, I found myself examining my family and friends expressions. People used to say you can tell a lot about a person by looking in their eyes, but you actually need to look at all aspects of their face from their forehead down to their chin. Having the knowledge of facial expressions helps you identify when people are lying to
Moreover, be mindful that my tone and actions have a significant effect on others, and attempt to listen and try to read gestures and body language. A significant insight that was observed from this exercise was that body language plays an important role in an individual’s behavior, which can transcend language and other cultural barriers. The fifth experiential exercise conducted was called “Break the Safe, and was comprised of a board game with 5 teams of 3-5 individuals. The objective of this exercise is to be a member of a group of agents who have 30 minutes to acquire four keys to unlock the safe and stop the countdown.
Are you going to sell tacos when you grow up? Are you an illegal Mexican who crossed the border? Soccer is only enjoyed by Mexicans. All the jokes and more I’ve been told by friends before, every single remark I can think of from the top of my head. It is not as funny as I thought it would be but way more confusing even if I caught the gist of it.
The novel Unmasking the Face by Paul Ekman and Wallace V. Friesen was very interesting. It provided information on how to read six different emotions on the face. The book served as a guide to help understand emotions that people portray on their face. The guide focused on six main emotions: surprise, fear, disgust, anger, happiness, and sadness. In addition to all of emotions it explained the different types of signals that can appear on the face.
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After reading the Invisible Man we had to write an essay, and what was great about this is that we had to brainstorm our own thesis (something that I have never done before, usually the teacher provides the student with the thesis) but everyone had a different view on the book. This was a great way of challenging the class as seniors. With writing our own thesis we had to argue and support one’s thinking so it would make sense to the
Give your personal comment on the article as a conclusion of your article review. Reading, understanding, and applying facial expression are very interested. This article brings the reader to know about a guy who is really expert in facial expression. We can know how he works when he was a Sheriff in Los Angles Country and his experiences in patrol which always meet with the criminal issues there. And by reading it, I realized that it is important to learn how to read people’s thought just by looking at them to prevent ourselves from doing anything rashly and
A human’s emotions can be their greatest ally or worst enemy. Positive emotions such as desire and satisfaction primarily assume the role of motivation within a person. However, negative emotions possess an even greater motivational impact due to their ability to drive a person beyond their personal limits. For example, shame is a devastating emotion that causes feelings of inadequacy and failure. As a result, people strive to prevent shame to themselves and others at all costs.
Excited utterances are those statements made about some startling event while the declarant is still under the stress of the startling event. The rationale underlying this exception to the hearsay rule is that a person who is under the stress of some startling event is not likely to lie about it, and that the statement is therefore adequately trustworthy. A spontaneous present sense impression is an exception to the hearsay rule. A spontaneous present sense impression is defined as a statement describing or explaining an event made while the declarant is actually perceiving the event.
(R) A message from this book is that people should stop focusing on looks and objects and start interacting with people to receive true
Surprise connotation is getting someone off their game or off guard. The word shock differ from surprise connotation because surprise is when someone gives you a gift that you won't have thought of. While shock is also like scaring someone and that person becomes speechless. Flabbergasted : to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound Connotation-
One of which is the fact that when someone is face-to-face with someone else they can pick up on body language and facial expressions. Body language and facial expressions are one of the most important ways to determine someone 's true feelings without them needing to say directly how they feel. Additionally, with face-to-face interactions someone can pick up on audio clues and how people’s voices change with their emotions. This, as well as the body language and facial expressions, invokes empathy and makes understanding others much easier and more realistic.
The documentary Tough Guise 2 sheds light on a hidden truth to how men respond to threats on their masculinity and how masculinity is continuously reinforced. Jackson Katz reports that men commit the most violent crimes including mass shootings, and rapes. Katz points out that the reason why this is, is due to the fact that men are expected to be tough and aggressive, and if they feel their masculinity is threatened they respond with violence. Mass media also contributes to the ideal masculinity by creating aggressive games, and films that portray men violently. Katz emphasizes that male violence has become so common it has basically became a norm among
Her Thesis statement is “How your body language shapes who you are”. Cuddy’s talk is wonderfully funny and lighthearted throughout, which is effective in tearing down the wall between speaker and audience. She shows humorous photos and videos of politicians caught in awkward non-verbal expressions, and she solicits smiles by showing cute photos of furry animals posed in high power and low power positions. 24) How did the speaker gain our Attention?
The example taken from our textbook, where the dog is salivating and wagging his tail when he hears the bell, associating the bell to meal time mentioned in our psychology textbook (Feldman, R., 2015). Another good example would be to take a child, and present a bowl filled with grapes. The child gets excited because he knows what’s about to happen. The
The cognitive level of analysis aims to study how the inner processes of the mind processes information gained, and how they are interpreted and applied into the real world. Within this level of analysis, it was found that the cognitive and biological factors of our mind influence how we feel, or in other words, our emotions. Emotion can be defined as the body’s response to any specific situation. As all human beings can express how they feel through facial expressions, this suggests that emotions are biological rather than cognitive. However, emotions can be dependent on both the cognitive and biological factors of our body.