Essays on Facial Expression

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Thesis

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Body Language

The term ‘body language’ speaks for itself. It conveys the following meaning: your body can speak without words. In fact, it is a kind of non-verbal communication, which sometimes tells more than words. That is why it is important to learn body language, in order to understand it and to know how to apply this knowledge in practice.

Psychologists unanimously agree that emotions can be understood with the help of face expressions. The Facial Expression Program is aimed at making emotions easier to understand (Russell and Fernández Dols 3-4). It is composed of assumptions, methods and theories. The ...

Book Review: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

This is a great novel which is narrated directly through Christopher Boone, the main character and a kid with autism. Christopher is falsely accused of killing their neighbour’s dog, in which he decides to find out the real victim to prove his innocence. However, Mark Haddon, the author of the book argues that despite Christopher’s disability, he was still able to acquire cues, which led to unbelievable discoveries.

Q1. The only two emotions that Christopher was able to identify

Christopher was only able to identify the sad and happy faces. The identification of these two emotions is evident when Christopher gives out a detailed explanation that he has ...

In apublic setting, men and women adopt various ways for ensuringnonverbal communication. Nonverbal communication comprises of all communication elements such as body language, hand gestures, etc except words. The patterns are different because of difference in way of communication. In a public setting, nonverbal communication is associated with culture and gender, and culture exerts its influence on non verbal communication of males and females (Wood, 2015). People communicate in non verbal manner according to their cultural beliefs and norms. With the help of nonverbal communication men and women can communicate in social gatherings with friends, family, and other people. ...

In a public setting, men and women adopt various ways for ensuring nonverbal communication. Nonverbal communication comprises of all communication elements such as body language, hand gestures, etc except words. The patterns are different because of difference in way of communication. In a public setting, nonverbal communication is associated with culture and gender, and culture exerts its influence on non verbal communication of males and females (Wood, 2015). In the same manner, verbal communication is influenced by culture, which can be analyzed from the fact that masculine speaking style is preferred in public speaking. People communicate in non verbal ...

Symbolic interaction emphasizes the constructed and negotiated aspect of self and social life. As a result it draws attention away from analyses of the structural and institutional features of society. How can some of the key concept (there are at least 10, work with 5) in this framework be used to explore stratification systems and relations of domination and the subordination they sustain. Stratification is based upon the arrangement of groups in social hierarchy which can remain over generations due to the presence of inequality. It includes division of groups according to the caste system, on the basis of ...

Each person participates in social life. A particular way of communication makes it possible to achieve a special aim by establishing the contact with the person: obtaining some information, meeting the mental necessity for communication, etc. Communication represents exchange of information for effective interconnection. Non-verbal communication occupies a greater percentage of the connection between people. So, non-verbal communication can be interpreted as such a behavior of a person that signals about emotional status and the nature of the interaction between communicating individuals. Non-verbal communication means can be expressed in different ways. For example, it may be clothes, hairstyle, facial ...

Psychology: Exploring the Relations of Micro Expression to Professional Performance

Psychology: Exploring the Relations of Micro Expression to Professional Performance

According to the studies conducted by Albert Mehrabian in 1971, in communication process, around 93% of human communication takes place through non-verbal mode. He divided the communication process into three parts; words (7%), tone of the voice (38%), and body language 55% (Mehrabian, 1981). Among non-verbal modes of communication the commonly used mode is the facial expressions. The face of the person expresses his/her emotions. Yet, some part of emotions is sometimes not clear to everyone. We all are not experts in identifying each and every expression of the ...

Summary: The study titled: “The Role of Prefrontal Inhibition in Regulating Fascial Expression of Pain.”, examines the role of pre frontal cortex in the control of fascial expression of pain (Karmann et al.). Expression of pain is determined by a certain factor in the environment (like the availability of caregiver) and also on factors that exist within an individual. Expressing pain is a form of communicating once feelings to others. Understanding expressions may help in assessing the pain in a patient (Craig). Presently, assessment of pain in an individual, is done based on the verbalization of pain by the ...

Abstract

Facial expression is an essential form of non-verbal communication, especially as it relates to the expression of emotion. The following study is designed to describe the correlation between self-identified cultural influence and recognition of emotion. Literature will be organized and discussed as it relates to the cultural differences between facial expression recognition. A correlation study will then be conducted to determine whether certain facial expressions are more universal than others, especially as it relates to decoding facial expressions that relate to specific emotion. The study anticipates that happiness is more universal than most other facial expressions, while anger, irritation, ...

Final Summary Paper

Communication is a complex process that involves words, voice volume, and a tone, body language, the topic of discussion and the communication history between interlocutors. Communication can be called effective, when the recipient understands the message and expresses its meaning back to the sender. Interpersonal communication takes place when two, or more people, exchange their messages and have the roles of a speaker and a listener. Nevertheless, a lecture cannot be called interpersonal because only the lecturer speaks, while the audience listens. One-way communication is also a communication, which is called broadcasting. Interpersonal skills show, how effectively people get ...

Summary of Teaching Plan

Diabetes is a topic that has been widely mentioned in the teaching of health studies. I felt obliged to educate the community on this topic after a close relative of mine died from diabetes due to lack of knowledge and awareness. In my opinion, this topic was personal and a way of relieving the burden I have always had about no one being able to share information with my family member about diabetes. In a 30 minutes session at Mount Sinai Diabetes Centre, I was able to discuss about the different nature of diabetes their causes, symptoms and ways ...

Some people think to look at an image is not a big deal. When friends send pictures to each other via twitter, facebook, or even Instagram, most would just view the image in its entirety. How many of you have taken the time to look at the smallest details in any photo? Today, I will be doing just that.

Here is a photo. At first glance, your eyes are drawn to a woman in the center. Her facial expression is dominating the photo. In fact, her face is the only one you can clearly see. If you look closely at the ...

Cranial nerves refer to the nerves that emerge from the brain directly. This is in contrast to the spinal nerves that come from spinal cord segments. There are 12 pairs of cranial nerves in human and only the both the first and the second cranial nerve pairs originate from cerebrum. All the other pairs originate from the brainstem. Other than the cranial nerve II, all the other cranial pairs belong to the peripheral nervous system (PNS). The cranial nerve ganglia come from the central nervous system (CNS) (Patestas and Gartner).

The seventh pair of cranial nerves is the ...

Analysis of Communication in a Scene from The Devil Wears Prada 1

The identity of the main character, Miranda Priestly in the movie The Devil Wears Prada is clearly constructed in the one of the first scenes of the movie when she interacts with her new assistant, Andy. Miranda strategic communicator who incorporates many of the concepts of communication, both verbal and more importantly in this case, nonverbal. Miranda defines herself in her opening scene as a strong, confident ...

The agreement to take a photo alongside a perpetrator shows one element of forgiveness. In this stage forgiveness, both the survivor and the perpetrator come to terms and the acceptance that in order to move forward they must at least try to work their differences. Body language revealed in the photos presents the other major stage of forgiveness. Under body language, numerous degrees of forgiveness can be inferred from; It poses, distance, closeness, facial expression and coziness among others. Jean Pierre and Viviane's photo shows a comfortable and fewer formal photo pose. Interpreting this photo could mean that the perpetrator is ...

Introduction

Communication is a tool that shapes identities environment, culture, and relationship. It involves the use of the communication skills when communicating with the people. The face to face communication is taking things as they are; often an immediate response is expected in such scenarios, for example in the text “Will you help me?” in chapter one of the book Communicating in a changing world (Dobkin, 2007). They interact in face-to-face method. In the part of the online communication the concept of communicating vie use of electronic transmitters like e-mails, in this case the form to enhance effective communication.

They ...

Erving Hoffman (1922-1982) embodied in the sociological theory of Shakespeare's verse:

"All the world's a stage,And all the men and women merely players:They have their exits and their entrances;And one man in his time plays many parts" (Shakespeare) Socio dramatic approach is a version of symbolic interactionism. E. Hoffman understood social "I" as the property is not an actor, but as the product of theatrical interaction between performers and audience. As well as in the theater, in the social life are important suits in which we play a role, scene props, scenery. However, the main role, of course belongs to our partners on the stage and the audience. When individuals ...

In the world of journalism, one may think that words are all that matter. However, images are just as or even more important, as demonstrated by the saying “A picture is worth a thousand words.” This saying remains a cliché because images can convey a sentiment that all people can understand regardless of translation or intellect. Particularly powerful are images of people such as the one photographed by Iranian Newsha Tavakolian. The image depicts the subject’s desire for female equality and liberation in the Muslim world through a tense body language, worried expression, and overall bleakness, including the writing. Upon first ...

Successful of a presentation is determined not only by its contents, but the way it is delivered, merely effective body language, facial expression and eye contact, as well as vocal strategies. The Victory Speech by Barack Obama that he made after winning elections in 2008 represents a fusion of all elements, crucial for the delivery of a quality speech. While giving the speech, Barack Obama maintains a balanced position. Sometimes allowing himself leaning forward while speaking, he avoids leaning on one foot that may be perceived as the lack of confidence or doubts. From the tempo of speaking and dynamics of pauses, it ...

Citation: Busso, C., & Narayanan, S. (2007). Interrelation between speech and facial gestures in emotional utterances: a single subject study. Audio, Speech, and Language , X(XX), 1–16. Retrieved from http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4317558 Single subject research has always posed some significant challenges to researcher s and scientists working in the field of experimental psychology. The fact remains that unlike popular opinion, single subject research can have statistical validity and can provide the necessary tools to provide usable data during many experiments(Kratochwill, 1978). Horner et al., (2005) provided some useful insights on how to assess the quality of a single subject research paper. ...

Introduction

Trying to Find Chinatown is a one-act play position on New York City streets. The play has only two characters, Ronnie and Benjamin. Chinatown seems to be racial or ethnic identity. The central of conflict observed in the play is about the definition of ethnic identity. While Naked Lunch is a narrative that is hard to describe in terms of plot this is because, the book commences with the adventure of a Mr. William Lee, his journey begins with him running from the police in the US. Finally he moves to Mexico where he his directed to Dr. Benway not knowing what ...

Greek sculpture and art played a significant role throughout the stages of history. Majority of the styles have been preserved, and reproduced by what the modern audience regard as some of the finest artists to have ever lived such as Michelangelo. The ‘Golden Age’ of Ancient Greece, also referred to as Classical period formed the foundation of most of the most prosperous and academic civilizations of ancient times. During this period, all facets of humanistic pursuit excelled and thrived such as philosophy, art, politics, and literature. In particular, art gained fame for naturalistic interpretations of human nature and the mastery ...

Of all kinds of entertainment, movies are, by far, the single most popular type. People are so used to watching films cablecast on TV that they cannot envision the time when no sound was to be heard coming from beyond the screen. Indeed, it is difficult to imagine soundless motion pictures, which used to be a reality more than 100 years ago. Cinematographic was an infant industry in the second half of the 19th century. However, in the early 20th century, experts created the first movie with a synchronized sound coupled to image reproduced on the screen. Actors and film directors ...

According to the joint commission 2001’s healthcare standards, every patient is supposed to be assessed for pain before any medical step is taken. Pain assessment and management are essential for any healthcare services to be of top quality. There are several ways used to determine the scale of pain among children and adults. They include the verbal way where the patient is asked to rate the scale of the pain he or she feels on a verbal scale from no pain to worst pain, observing the facial impression of the patient, and also using a numeric scale where the patient ...

Deception by the Investigating Officer in the Investigative, Interrogative, and Testimonial Processes

Deception is a deliberate act to mislead people involved in criminality. Deception acts as a balance between disclosing enough information that satisfies the interrogator while hiding any information that can lead to detection. Interrogators control the information and impression management to maximize the detection of deception. The strategy of deception prepares and recounts fictitious accounts of a target event. Investigators rely on deception as a chief tool to lure culprits to give them facts related to crimes. Police interrogators often rely on psychological procedures that use deception as a key component. The interrogation procedures encourage rational people to make rational decisions in the context ...

Leonardo da Vinci: Mona Lisa

Da Vinci’s ‘Mona Lisa’ better known as Mona Lisa has captivated the hearts and minds of millions for several hundreds of years since its conception. It is truly a great work of art in that it is basically simple yet its true life approach makes it one of the most desirable paintings ever to grace a collection of great masters. The comparison painting is the one of Ginevra da Benci which was painted by Leonardo in 1479/80, almost twenty five years before the Mona Lisa. Although it is a relatively early work by Leonardo, some of the stylistic features which ...

- Mindy does not dress appropriately for the medical facility. Her dressing is casual and is too accessorized for a medical environment that embraces conventional dressing (Bryan 223). As a person working in a medical environment, she should ensure that she represents the decorum associated with the profession, right from her dressing. - Mindy’s personal ‘style’ detracts from the medical facility’s aire of professionalism. Dressing in miniskirts, coloring the hair, mixing colors and over-indulging in accessories is not associated with the medical workplace. Such dressing is appropriate for informal or social environments. - In my opinion, every employee ...

The SMS language or texting has evolved to be a popular form of communication in this digital era where mobile phones are easily accessible to millions of people around the world. Further, the SMS language or texting is preferred by many persons engaged in it on both gender. The preference for texting can be attributed to a number of reasons. The early mobile phone messaging had a number of features that necessitated the use of abbreviations in testing. For instance, it was difficult to make text entry since it required multiple pressing on the keypad in order to generate the required letters. ...

Advertisement refers to a form of communication and marketing strategy employed to manipulate, persuade, and convince consumers or a particular group of people to adapt a new course of action or continue with their previous behavior. The main goal of employing advertisement is to change consumer behavior, beliefs, and values towards a particular product or service with the aim to increase the sales volume, profit margin, and market niche. In most cases, people presume that advertising/advertisement means to sell, but this is not the case because advertisements inform and notifies consumers about various products available in the market. However, how do advertisers persuade, ...

1 – A

Speech

Speech is an articulated expression that uses sounds in words or units of meaning that people use in communicating others. In addition, speech is the power of speaking. It pertains to habitual manner or style of speaking. When a person speaks without hesitation, without repetition of words or sounds, and with fluency, he has an accurate speech. It implies that speech without errors would be a clear expression of thoughts, ideas, feelings, and perceptions in a voice; using proper intonation, volume and pitch to support expressed meaning. Similarly, in a gestural form of human communication that exist for the deaf in ...

ABSTRACT

This research proposal presents face reconstruction and recognition technology in the three dimensional format with the help of artificial neural networks. This technology combines geometric interpretation, detailed survey and analysis of streams of data in order to process static and dynamic images to produce neural images using advanced computing system. 3D face reconstruction done with the help of interconnected circuit of artificial neurons is followed by the step of matching and verification against familiar faces. 3D face reconstruction and recognition technology finds extensive applications in a number of fields including forensics and ensuring secure transactions. The process is complex, systematic ...

ABSTRACT

Children often rely on their parents for their cognitive, emotional and psychological developmental processes. Having reared by a parent with schizophrenia exposes a child to a unique environment during their childhood developmental and formative years. To a certain extent, the child exposed to living with a schizophrenic parent can make him vulnerable to different behavioral, emotional and mental challenges that are risk factors in the development of personality and mental disorders. This paper will present the effects on children with a schizophrenic parent and to evaluate the extent of the challenges in their coping ability that may tend to result in disruptive and disturbing behaviors ...

ABSTRACT

This research proposal presents face reconstruction and recognition technology in the three dimensional format with the help of artificial neural networks. This technology combines geometric interpretation, detailed survey and analysis of streams of data in order to process static and dynamic images to produce neural images using advanced computing system. 3D face reconstruction done with the help of interconnected circuit of artificial neurons is followed by the step of matching and verification against familiar faces. 3D face reconstruction and recognition technology finds extensive applications in a number of fields including forensics and ensuring secure transactions. The process is complex, systematic ...

Introduction

Communication is complex. This is because it involves words, body language, tone of the voice, the volume, the topic which is being discussed at that moment and the history of communication of the people involved. Effective communication thus occurs when the receiver of a message understands it and demonstrates this understanding through sending feedback to the sender of the message. For this reason, we must be good in our communication and interpersonal skills, (Prentice Hall India, 2004). Talking of interpersonal skills, these are the skills of life that are used on daily basis while communicating and interacting with other people. ...

Introduction

Microanalysis of communication defines demonstrative communication as a mechanism of sending and receiving of information through a common system of symbols, behavior and signs. This shows that, it includes the non verbal and unwritten communication. These microanalysis researches continue to statistically indicate that the whole communication process is comprised of two thirds non verbal while the rest is verbal (Burgoon et al, 1996). The historical background of this form of communication dates back with the scientific scholars such as Charles Darwin and Ray Birdwhistell. Darwin, in his book “Expressions of Emotions in Man and Animals” indicate that facial expression as ...

Arguably, communication is one of the important activities in human nature. As a matter of fact, communication creates the link between different people in society. It is worth noting that communication is an essential activity among human beings since it is used in every aspect of life. There are various fundamentals of communication that ensure that every aspect of human communication is done in the right way. In communication, there is the integration of practice and theories that will lead to the understanding of the communication process. In society, communication creates relationships, identities, as well as realities. The impact of ...

Photography and death:

Introduction: Death in photography has always been a controversial subject and this continues to elucidate comments especially when considering the ethical implications of photography itself. Nostalgia is also an important element of photography and this has been revealed in several artist’s work most notably those like Sally Mann and Luc Delahaye who have both treated the subject of death with some detail especially in their portrayal of dead and decomposing bodies. When one writes about death in photography, we also have to deal with the ‘death of the subject’. After we press the shutter the subject 'dies' at ...

Question 1

The following are items that are important in non-verbal communication and they should be put into consideration during non-verbal communication: - Space/Distance The space or distance between two people in a non-verbal communication situation affects the way each other’s reception of the message transmitted from the other. Too much distance always has a negative impact and close proximity also may have a positive or negative bearing on the communication. Close proximity may be perceived as friendliness or a threat and invasion of private space. - Orientation The way in which your orientation relative to another individual in any ...

Report on a Research Article

- What is the name of your journal? The journal I have analyzed in the preparation of this report is Journal of Experimental Psychology: General edited by Gauthier Isabel. - For whom does it seem to have been written? For example, is it directed towards a special kind of psychologists? Does it include articles that would be of interest to educators or others outside the field of academic psychology? If so, list several titles. Empirical research is a crucial aspect in the lives of all kinds of psychologists. With this in mind, the journal contains articles that seem ...

This paper is aimed at exploring various elements through which our nonverbal behavior affects our communication. This paper starts with a brief introduction about non-verbal communication and then proceeds to defining it. After a brief definition of non-verbal communication this paper presents several elements of non-verbal nature which play vital role in non-verbal communication. Further in the paper these elements are shown in respect of their role in overall communication. The paper is concluded with a brief and concise conclusion at the end. This paper mainly addresses the situation of a public speaker in order to analyze the effects of non-verbal communication in ...

The Northern Renaissance is an interesting period in the history of art and artists like Rogier Van der Weyden have produced works that are still admired today. One of his paintings, the Crucifixion, will be examined in this short essay. The painting was created with oil colors on oak panels and the technique of dendrochronology dates it to c. 1460. It consists of two rectangular panels joined together to form one entity. In the 1990’s it was reconstructed and X rays showed dowel holes that suggest that it was probably part of a bigger sculptural structure, perhaps an ...

Arguably, from the research findings, it is evident that the FACS approach is amenable to alteration for use with all other species of primates; this method allows one to compare and contrast the facial repertoires among many species with distinct characteristics. Developing FACS for chimpanzees has made it easy for us to understand how and why the human facial movements vary from that of the chimpanzees. The apparent difference can be deduced from the varying facial morphology, underlying musculature, and the interface between the two. From the general repertoire, nine commonly seen facial actions have successfully been described and ...

Introduction

The research that was conducted was aimed at checking the effect of defendant facial expression on mock juror decision-making especially the power of remorse. Researchers had an interest in the facial expression of the defendant and this led them to experimentally manipulate the exhibit of remorse and anger in the defendant pictures so that they could assess the weight that could lead to decision making b y the mock jurors. The research discovered that, the defendants who were remorseful had more lenient verdicts when they were compared to those of an angry defendant. (Christian, 2001).

There was a major relationship between ...

Demonstrative Communication

Berlo (2010), in the Communication Process has defined communication as a method of passing information and messages from the sender to the receiver. To effectively communicate, one must incorporate verbal and non verbal modes of communication. In addition, one should use visual and written modes of communication to pass on thoughts, speech, information, writing, behavior and speech. Verbal communication includes many aspects including written and oral means of communication. On the other hand, non verbal communication may include eye contact, gestures, body posture as well as facial expression. Demonstrative communication combines unwritten and nonverbal ways through which verbal communication is ...

The author of the article has defined emotions in numerous ways, and he has accepted that emotions can be described as facial expression, subjective and physiology experiences. I strongly agree with this description since emotions are also referred to as feelings and merely a collection of experiences like grief, joy, love, hate, panic, trust, joy and fear. Since emotions are a specific response to a particular occurrence which usual takes a shorter duration, the author can be justified as being right in the description of the emotions as a physiological experience. In this case the emotions results due to persons physiological response, like when ...

A gender difference is an area that is difficult to understand and it has led to miscommunications and lots of controversies. It has led to miscommunication and misinterpretation of information in many areas more so within the family. Furthermore, recent studies are attributing gender differences as the leading source of miscommunication in the work place. In deed attempts to farther find out the gist of this facts has been thwarted with controversies of peoples personalities and this is why some scholars opt to look at this challenge through the eyes of culture. Hence, these scholars have noted that each ...

Part I

Communication: The nurse did not use a polite tone as she was communicating to her patient. The nurse used a hostile tone and it appears that she was yelling at the patient. The nurse made the patient feel frightened and inhibited. Rationale: The patient will feel threatened and may become uncooperative if the patient if an impolite, hostile tone is used. Treatment goals may be impaired if the patient feels frightened or intimidated.

Appropriate Action

The nurse should always act professionally

Cultural Competence The nurse failed to greet everyone in the room The nurse failed ...

Description of a pet

Inspired by Thomas McGuane’s book “Some Horses” I decided to write about the big part of my life, my pet. Let me introduce the Staffordshire terrier of a name Nick. We grew up together and I have some information to share with you about his life.

I remember the day, when my father brought a little puppy and asked whether we want him to stay with us. He was so cute and lively so our reply was positive. He quickly adapted and became a good friend of ours. That is how he became a part of our family.

Nick had light brown ...

Interpersonal Communication

Introduction

Interpersonal communication majorly deals with the interaction or communication linking individual and a large group of people such as a community. Through the study, of the interpersonal communications, one gains knowledge of how people communicate and negotiate. Numerous people have different communication skills. This is for the main reason that people born with different skills and talents. However, through daily practice, the people specialize and perfect in the communicating skill that best suites their characteristics. Through communication, people are able to exchange ideas and pass on information from one person to another (Linder, 1991).

Through the successful accomplishment of the ...

ABSTRACT

A combination of harmonic, melodic and rhythmical sounds make up music, which has now been used for centuries for a variety of medicinal purposes. The therapeutic intervention of using music to ease the pain in patients in various conditions has been used for a long time and has been shown to be effective in relieving pain. As an element of pain control, music has stirred an interest amongst various researchers to file exactly its effect in various health conditions in which patients may be experiencing. While doing this, it is necessary to appreciate the fact that pain felt by an adult ...