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  2. Facial expression - Wikipedia

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    Voluntary facial expressions are often socially conditioned and follow a cortical route in the brain. Conversely, involuntary facial expressions are believed to be innate and follow a subcortical route in the brain. Facial recognition can be an emotional experience for the brain and the amygdala is highly involved in the recognition process.

  3. Non-verbal leakage - Wikipedia

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    In summary, although the face is the most expressive in terms of non-verbal expression, it is also one of the most easily controlled, so its levels of non-verbal leakage can be relatively low with conscious control of facial expressions. [6] Indicators of facial leakage include facial expressions that last too long, that are too intensive, or ...

  4. Developmental differences in solitary facial expressions

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    Facial expressions are used to communicate emotions. They can also occur solitarily, without other people being present. People often imagine themselves in social situations when alone, resulting in solitary facial expressions. [1] Toddlers and children in early childhood use social cues and contexts to discriminate and recognize facial ...

  5. Facial Action Coding System - Wikipedia

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    The development of FACS tools for different species allows the objective and anatomical study of facial expressions in communicative and emotional contexts. Furthermore, a cross-species analysis of facial expressions can help to answer interesting questions, such as which emotions are uniquely human. [21]

  6. Body language - Wikipedia

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    Facial expression is an important part of body language and the expression of emotion.It can comprise movement of the eyes, eyebrows, lips, nose and cheeks. At one point, researchers believed that making a genuine smile was nearly impossible to do on command.

  7. Microexpression - Wikipedia

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    Looping is where facial expressions can elicit involuntary behavior. In the research motor mimicry there shows neurons that pick up on facial expressions and communicate with motor neurons responsible for muscles in the face to display the same facial expression. Thus displaying a smile may elicit a micro expression of a smile on someone who is ...

  8. Facial feedback hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    The facial feedback hypothesis, rooted in the conjectures of Charles Darwin and William James, is that one's facial expression directly affects their emotional experience. . Specifically, physiological activation of the facial regions associated with certain emotions holds a direct effect on the elicitation of such emotional states, and the lack of or inhibition of facial activation will ...

  9. Emotion classification - Wikipedia

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    Circumplex models have been used most commonly to test stimuli of emotion words, emotional facial expressions, and affective states. [ 13 ] Russell and Lisa Feldman Barrett describe their modified circumplex model as representative of core affect, or the most elementary feelings that are not necessarily directed toward anything.