Psychology / Unit 9 Psych 1031 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Basic Emotions
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The idea
Ekman identified a set of emotions whose facial expressions are recognized across widely separated cultures.
In practice
Photographs of these expressions were identified consistently by participants in isolated communities.
Where people slip
Universality of recognition is contested, and later work found stronger cultural influence than the original studies reported.
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