Paul Ekman

1. The researcher Paul Ekman maintains that there are six basic human emotions: happiness, sadness, fear, anger, surprise, and disgust. In the tradition of evolutionary theory, each of these should provide a survival value (they should be adaptive). Explain the survival value of each emotion and give examples of how it might help today’s people survive. Paul Ekman had defined that there are six basic emotions such as: happiness, sadness, fear, anger, surprise, and disgust; as mentioned in our textbook, page 88. There is a survival value to each of these emotions that people feel because they provide a form of protection or stimulation. Without emotion we are detached from the world around us and other human beings. In the emotion of disgust, a person might feel ill or offensive and as human beings the action that would occur would be to remove oneself from the…

According to Paul Ekman, Ph.D., emotions is what unifies all of humankind, also, that all individuals have the same emotions. There is evidence that there are about six or seven types of emotions. But what are the characteristics of emotions? Paul Ekman informs us that one of the first characteristics of an emotion it that it’s unbidden. Unbidden is arising without conscious effort, we don’t choose to have an emotion. For example, we don’t get to say, “alright now I’m going to be happy”. But…

Micro expressions can help people become more sensitive to other peoples feelings, since common expressions on the face don’t always accurately portray how someone is really feeling. By being able to read the emotions that they are trying to conceal, it can better peoples understanding of others (Ekman, 2015). Everyone can benefit from learning micro expressions, teachers can read the expressions of their students faces to obtain cues when deciding if students are understanding the material or…

Title of publication: Paul Ekman and Wallace V. Friesen (1971) Constants Across Cultures In The Face And Emotion Aims: Paul and Wallace wanted to do an experiment to see if both facial and emotional expressions are shared from culture to culture. What is facial and emotional expression? Facial and emotional expressions can very; these expressions could include crying, smiling, or laughing. With this Background knowledge under their belt they were determined to find if different cultures would…

Radiolab did a segment on how our facial expressions can be hints to our inner emotions by interviewing Paul Ekman, a renowned psychologist who is a pioneer in the study of emotions. The radio segment begins with a psychologist by the name of Gordon Burghardt. Burghardt studies snakes particularly the hognose snake. Gordon studies them by putting a chicken puppet inside the cage and begins to attack the snake with this puppet. The snake reacts by flipping over on its back, starts to bleed from…

visible. The results showed correct answers of 80 percent hands not visible and 75 percent hands visible. Every person communicates using both verbal and non-verbal language. Non-verbal language/communication consists of body language, facial expressions and touch. Psychologists have determined that non-verbal communication provide a wealth of information to others regarding their emotions (Burton, Westen, & Kowalski, 2012). An angry look or a stamping foot, can speak just as loud as a…

In 2011, Kevin Chran wrote about Paul Ekman and his research on facial emotion measurement. As a matter of fact, when Ekman was fourteen in 1948 his mother committed suicide due to bipolar depression. Not only ... but also he wished that he could have seen the depression in her face but he couldn’t at the time. In the same fashion he wanted to find a way to help save more lives. Nevertheless, he ended up finding out that Darwin was right about emotions being universal. Until recently everybody…

innate and not learned, but that they’re also universal across cultures. They believe that whether you were born in Tokyo, Oklahoma, or the isolated Amazon, you’re born with an innate ability to identify certain basic emotions like anger, fear, happiness, surprise, sadness, and disgust play out on a human face. Darwin was one of the first to express this theory back in 1872 in his book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. He suggested humans evolved such emotional expressions…

was linked to adapted characteristics that evolved through natural selection. In other words, the evolutionary perspective assumes that ancient human environments contributed to the modern human traits that allows us to adjust to modern threats, emotions, and scenarios. For example, a mother may become aggressive when protecting her children against prey and defend them. Through natural and sexual selection the trait has become prevalent in general protectiveness over their young in…

In 1969, Paul Ekman argued that anger, fear, disgust, sadness, and happiness are considered primary emotions that produce innate facial expressions. He suggested that surprise, pride, and contempt should be included within the group of “basic emotions”. The innate theory was proposed by Caroll Izard’s research on young infant’s facial expressions. The experiment included in this ZAP activity asked me to choose which emotion I thought the picture provided was portraying most accurately. From my…