Emotions

Emotions

Happy

Disgust

Emotions cover a wide range of feelings from happiness and sadness to jealousy and hatred. Feelings- powerful, spontaneous, sometimes unforgettable. Where do feelings come from? Of all the species, we humans seem the most emotional. More often than any other creature, we express fear, anger, sadness, joy and love. No one needs to tell you that emotions add colour  to your life: at pleasant, peaceful times they can uplift your life; in times of stress they can disrupt your life.

Fear

Culture and Emotional Expression

Surprise

The meaning of gestures varies from culture. Sometime ago, the psychologist, otto Klineberg (1938) observed that in Chinese literature, people clapped their hands to express worry or disappointment, laughed to express anger, and stuck out their tongues to show surprise. Similarly, the “thumbs up” and “A-OK” signs North American culture would be interpreted as insults in certain other cultures.

Sadness

Do facial expressions also mean something in different cultures? To find out, two investigative teams – one led by Paul Ekman and Wallace Friesen, the other by Caroll Lzard, showed photographs of different facial expressions to people in different parts of the world.  

Anger