Human Emotion

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Communication

• What are the different ways that we communicate with one another?

Non-Verbal Communication

• There is some debate over how much of communication is non-verbal

• Ex:– 55% body language, 38% tone of voice, and 7% the

actual words spoken (Mehrabian & Wiener)– Others suggest 60-70% of communication is non-

verbal

• Either way, most of what we communicate is not in our words

How many different emotions can you name?

What do they look like?

• Facial expressions

21 Human Facial Expressions

• Happy• Sad• Fearful• Angry• Surprised  • Disgusted • Appalled• Happily surprised• Happily disgusted• Sadly fearful• Sadly angry

• Sadly surprised• Sadly disgusted• Fearfully angry • Fearfully surprised• Fearfully disgusted• Angrily surprised• Angrily disgusted• Disgustedly surprised• Hatred• Awed

From an Ohia State University Study<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2593459/Which-face-happily-disgusted-Scientists-discover-humans-21-different-facial-expressions.html>

What?

• ‘sadly angry’ - when someone we care about upsets us

• ‘happily disgusted’ - when we are amused by something we also find slightly repellent, such as a joke that is in bad taste