A report on Emotion and Paul Ekman
Paul Ekman (born February 15, 1934) is an American psychologist and professor emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco who is a pioneer in the study of emotions and their relation to facial expressions.
- Paul EkmanFor more than 40 years, Paul Ekman has supported the view that emotions are discrete, measurable, and physiologically distinct.
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Disgust
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Disgust (Middle French: desgouster, from Latin gustus, "taste") is an emotional response of rejection or revulsion to something potentially contagious or something considered offensive, distasteful, or unpleasant.
It invokes a characteristic facial expression, one of Paul Ekman's six universal facial expressions of emotion.
Facial expression
0 linksOne or more motions or positions of the muscles beneath the skin of the face.
One or more motions or positions of the muscles beneath the skin of the face.
According to one set of controversial theories, these movements convey the emotional state of an individual to observers.
Ekman's work on facial expressions had its starting point in the work of psychologist Silvan Tomkins.
Contempt
0 linksPattern of attitudes and behaviour, often towards an individual or a group, but sometimes towards an ideology, which has the characteristics of disgust and anger.
Pattern of attitudes and behaviour, often towards an individual or a group, but sometimes towards an ideology, which has the characteristics of disgust and anger.
It is classified among Paul Ekman's seven basic emotions of contempt, anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise.
Affective neuroscience
0 linksAffective neuroscience is the study of the neural mechanisms of emotion.
The Ekman faces task is used to measure emotion recognition of six basic emotions.