Universality of facial expressions: An interplay between biology and culture
The majority of people almost effortlessly read emotions based on the facial expressions of other people. Numerous studies suggest that even newborns are showing interest in faces and facial expressions suggesting that this ability might be relevant from the evolutionary standpoint. This is addition...
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University Educons, Faculty of Sports and Tourism, Novi Sad
2022-01-01
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| description | The majority of people almost effortlessly read emotions based on the facial expressions of other people. Numerous studies suggest that even newborns are showing interest in faces and facial expressions suggesting that this ability might be relevant from the evolutionary standpoint. This is additionally supported by cross-cultural studies that clearly demonstrate the existence of a limited number of basic emotions which are universal. Furthermore, the influence of culture and the living environment is evident regarding emotional display and recognition accuracy. From a developmental standpoint, available data suggest that the development of facial expressions recognition could be described by an inverted U curve. Starting from childhood through adulthood, we are developing the same sort of expertise in facial expression recognition. Later, with aging, the recognition of particular expressions is declining. The exact underlying mechanisms that play a role here are not fully grasped yet. In this review, we shortly summarized previous studies that investigated the universality of facial expressions and cultural effects on facial expressions recognition. Furthermore, the potential developmental courses were explained and some of the open questions were outlined regarding this topic. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-941b1ca045e843ab98bdb4965ea68e672023-07-04T10:51:31ZengUniversity Educons, Faculty of Sports and Tourism, Novi SadTIMS: Acta1452-94672406-13442022-01-0116279861452-94672202079BUniversality of facial expressions: An interplay between biology and cultureBarzut Vesna0Đorić Valentina1University Singidunum, Faculty of Health and Legal Business Studies, Belgrade, SerbiaEducons University, Faculty of Sport and Psychology, Novi Sad, SerbiaThe majority of people almost effortlessly read emotions based on the facial expressions of other people. Numerous studies suggest that even newborns are showing interest in faces and facial expressions suggesting that this ability might be relevant from the evolutionary standpoint. This is additionally supported by cross-cultural studies that clearly demonstrate the existence of a limited number of basic emotions which are universal. Furthermore, the influence of culture and the living environment is evident regarding emotional display and recognition accuracy. From a developmental standpoint, available data suggest that the development of facial expressions recognition could be described by an inverted U curve. Starting from childhood through adulthood, we are developing the same sort of expertise in facial expression recognition. Later, with aging, the recognition of particular expressions is declining. The exact underlying mechanisms that play a role here are not fully grasped yet. In this review, we shortly summarized previous studies that investigated the universality of facial expressions and cultural effects on facial expressions recognition. Furthermore, the potential developmental courses were explained and some of the open questions were outlined regarding this topic.https://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/1452-9467/2022/1452-94672202079B.pdffacial expressionsbasic emotionsdevelopment |
| spellingShingle | Barzut Vesna Đorić Valentina Universality of facial expressions: An interplay between biology and culture TIMS: Acta facial expressions basic emotions development |
| title | Universality of facial expressions: An interplay between biology and culture |
| title_full | Universality of facial expressions: An interplay between biology and culture |
| title_fullStr | Universality of facial expressions: An interplay between biology and culture |
| title_full_unstemmed | Universality of facial expressions: An interplay between biology and culture |
| title_short | Universality of facial expressions: An interplay between biology and culture |
| title_sort | universality of facial expressions an interplay between biology and culture |
| topic | facial expressions basic emotions development |
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