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A facial expression results from one or more motions or positions of the muscles of the face. They are closely associated with our emotions. Charles Darwin noted in his book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animal :- ...the young and the old of widely different races, both with man and animals, express the same state of mind by the same movements.
In the mid-20th century most anthropologists believed that facial expressions were entirely learned and could therefore differ among cultures, but studies (eventually with people of the Papua New Guinea highlands who had not been in contact with the outside world) have supported Darwin's belief to a large degree, particularly for expressions of anger, sadness, fear, surprise, disgust, contempt and happiness. Research has also shown that consciously making expressions can induce the corresponding emotion.
Facial expressions are a form of nonverbal communication, and can be voluntary or involuntary. Most people's success rate at reading emotions from facial expression is only a little over 50 percent. Microexpressions, brief flashes of a facial expression, are likely to be involuntary and unconscious, and most people do not learn to read them at all. Recognizing facial expressions uses some of the same brain systems as face recognition.
Facial expressions include:
- anger, sadness, fear, surprise, disgust, contempt and happinessThis article is about an emotion. Happiness is also a 1998 U. film written and directed by Todd Solondz. See also Joy for the disambiguation of that term. Happiness pleasure or joy is the emotional state of being happy . The definition of happiness is one
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- excitement
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- crying (that is with sadness)
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- puzzlement
- frown
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- smugness or self-satisfaction
- sneer
- snarl
- tongue-showing
- pout
- etc.
The muscles of facial expression are:
- Auricularis anterior muscle
- Buccinator muscle
- Corrugator supercilii muscle
- Depressor anguli oris muscle
- Depressor labii inferioris muscle
- Depressor septi nasi muscle
- Frontalis muscle
- Levator anguli oris muscle
- Levator labii superioris muscle
- Levator labii superioris alaeque nasi muscle
- Mentalis muscle
- Nasalis muscle
- Orbicularis oculi muscle
- Orbicularis oris muscle
- Platysma muscle
- Procerus muscle
- Risorius muscle
- Zygomaticus major muscle
- Zygomaticus minor muscle