Synergising Emotional Expression

Need to understand that it is the combination and integration of emotional expressions that is important, ie you might be scratching your nose because it itchy!!!!!!

Just focusing on one dimension to the exclusion of the others can invite misleading, inaccurate inclusions:
"...focusing on words alone to code the emotions of another person is unlikely to be accurate, given non-verbal cues modify, augment, illustrate, accentuate, and contradict the words they are accompanying..."
Burgoon as quoted by Seph Fontane Pennock et al, 2019

Furthermore,
"...Facial and bodily expressions share several underlying neural mechanisms..."
de Gelder et al as quoted by Seph Fontane Pennock et al, 2019

Two examples of emotions (joy and anger) showing how the facial, bodily and verbal elements work synergistically together:

down
(source: Seph Fontane Pennock et al, 2019)

Search For Answers

© 2008 - 2025 Bill Synnot and Associates
Registered - All Rights Reserved
Designed by: FineIT

BSA Chat Assistant