Paul Ekman

The Great Unknown Most people in the world are scared of something. For some, it is a bug, a clown, or a certain place. From the beginning of time, humans have been scared of the unknown. In Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, the fear of the unknown plays various roles: it explains fear and what it can do, it helps uncover characters’ personality, and it connects to the reader. The main role of fear of the unknown is to explain the types and consequences of distress. People have been scared…

The emotional state is a tricky business because it’s like a complex abstract puzzle with limited pieces that can only be solved by perceptions of sight and sound. We’ve spent centuries trying to understand emotions but it can’t be accurately explained since each person experiences and feels their emotions differently than the next person. Even though emotions can’t precisely be defined, there are clues, or puzzle pieces if you will, that indicate a person’s emotional state. These puzzle pieces…

At first glance, the protagonist of this film can be mistaken for Riley the girl who has five small personas living in her brain and controlling her emotions. Although she is crucial to the narrative form, Joy’s conflicts and goals are what makes this story move forward. Joy is just one of the five basic emotions living in Riley’s brain, and she seems to have the biggest role when it comes to keeping Riley’s happy childhood memories or “core” memories safe in the hub. Joy’s main goal is to keep…

Introduction Non-verbal communication as defined by Nonverbal Communication Defined (na), is “communication without words.” This type of communication is everything you do with your body. This means your facial expressions, body language, tone, and even touching. Non- verbal communication can be more effective than what you are saying. It can also be deceiving as you may be saying one thing, but your body may be saying something entirely different. A passage taken from Nonverbal Communication…

Introduction Unfortunately, everybody has non-verbal communication whether you like it or not. Non-verbal communications are involuntary human responses to different emotions. For example when people are angry they might roll eyes or cross their arms, and when their nervous they might shake their legs. These are just three of the many non-verbal tells/ cues that people have. Being aware you one’s own tells is important because you have to learn to control them. When you’re a kid all you have to…

The ability to express and perceive emotion serves an important role for human functioning in everyday environments. It can, for example, allow us to detect danger or respond to a person in need. A full understanding of how emotion influences behaviour has yet to be realized. Recent literature has demonstrated that exposure to emotionally arousing stimuli can alter the perceptual mechanisms of participants. The present experiments attempted to expand this research to examine cross-modal vision…

The relationship I chose to analyze for my interpersonal communication paper was the relationship I had with my ex-girlfriend Laura. We met in high school through mutual friends and we dated throughout my junior and senior years. Communication problems and trust issues eventually were too big of a barrier to knock down and our relationship ended there. The main concepts I chose to analyze about my previous relationship were Personal Language, Nonverbal Communication, Proximity, the Social…

Nonverbal Communication speaks the loudest when we are talking to somebody. Communication doesn’t just depend on your verbal communication, but eye contact, posture, facial expressions, gestures, and tone of voice also is a big part. The ability of knowing how to use your nonverbal communication can actually help build new or stronger relationships and it lets people express or reinforce the relationship between people, provides feedback to the other person and sets the movement of communication…

It is a known fact that most people in the world own or have access to a digital device that has instant messaging capabilities. When utilizing instant messaging, people use graphic representations of emotions called emoticons. In other words, emoticons are a construction of the words “emotion” and “icon” that represent facial expressions using standard keyboard characters (Skovholt, 2014). With the prevalent use of instant messaging, business communications have shifted with the times where it…

Competent communication Communication is at the center of all relationships, whether or not it is competent communication it is still communication. People view and understand communication very differently, although to be a competent communicator there have to be different parts of communication dynamics of the language to have successful relationships. I will be writing about three different successes and failures of Dawnette Hedge in the lifelong pursuit to be a successful, competent…