Exam 5: Emotional Expression in the Face, Posture, and Voice

In the United States it is considered less acceptable to show negative emotions to acquaintances than to family and close friends; in Japan, the opposite is true.

Evidence indicates that all positive emotions include a strong Duchenne smile.

The Facial Action Coding System assigns a numeric code to each combination of muscle movements associated with a particular emotion.

Which of the following emotions are often confused with each other in studies of recognition based on facial expression, posture, and nonverbal vocal expression?

Which of the following was NOT a limitation of Charles Darwin's original studies of emotional expression?

Evidence is strongly consistent with William James's theory that, if you are physically unable to produce an emotional expression, you will not feel that emotion.

Which of the following muscle movements defines a Duchenne smile, as distinct from a non-Duchenne smile?

Biting one's tongue is a common expression of among the .

Hilary Elfenbein and colleagues (2007) have proposed that people in different cultures have different "accents" to their facial expressions of emotion. In order to demonstrate this phenomenon, they studied expressions of several emotions, as posed by participants in Quebec, Canada, and Gabon, Africa. Which of the following most accurately describes their findings?

Large-scale analyses of many studies indicate that people identify emotional expressions with somewhat greater accuracy when participant and poser are from the same culture, rather than different cultures.

Which of the following is the best definition of conceptual replication, as described in your textbook?

The study by Strack and colleagues (1998), in which participants held a pen in their teeth and rated the funniness of various cartoons, was designed to test which hypothesis?

A set of studies by Hillel Aviezer and colleagues (2012) suggests that posture may be more important than facial expression for communicating , especially in intense emotional experiences.

Which of the following best summarizes the implications of Hilary Elfenbein and colleagues' (2007) study of emotional expressions in Quebec, Canada and Gabon, Africa?

What is Möbius syndrome?

Summarize the results of Hilary Elfenbein and colleagues' (2007) study of emotion expression and recognition in Quebec, Canada and Gabon, Africa.

Findings from the Strack, Martin, and Stepper (1988) study with the pen and cartoons suggested that facial expressions can cause changes in emotional feelings.

Which of the following theories predicts that people's facial expressions of emotion are determined in part by universal human nature, and in part by social and cultural learning?

The Facial Action Coding System assigns a number to:

Evidence is strongest that which of the following positive emotions has a cross-culturally recognized facial and postural expression?