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For this post, scroll down to the bottom of the FACE Training site and complete the METT Demo. What was it like for you? How can you relate it to the science of emotion from chapters 11 and 12? How does/might it relate to motivation?
When I first went to the site I realized what it meant by face training. The first giveaway was the add for the TV show "Lie to Me" I have seen the show a couple of times and know the premise. He is a facial recognition expert showing off his talents in every episode. I have seen experts like this do facial recognition on other shows. For example, a few shows that have abnormal sightings of big foot or ufos and stuff like that will get facial recognition people to analyze their interviews of the eyewitnesses. They will explain what they see in the slight movements in the face and give their expert opinion on whether the witness is lying or not. So I have seen this concept before and it is very interesting and I can't believe how accurate they can be. As far as my demo went I scored an astounding . . . . 0% in the practice quiz. It was so easy to tell what the face was after froze the frame, but in that split second I had no idea. When I watched the video about the anger differences it made a lot of sense when he discussed what to focus on. The eyebrows and the lips stood out to me, but I found it amazing when he talked about seeing the left eyelid flex. How he could see that, I do not know.
As far as relating this to our chapters one theme stands out. This facial expression plays a huge role into the social expression of emotion. As the book said, facial features and body language is our richest form of dissecting how others are feeling. If our faces showed know emotion I am pretty sure the world would come to an end. Language barriers would increase, salesmen would lose their jobs, performers of every sect would see a decrease in their value. Facial expression is key to our society and that is why it was part of our chapters this week.
The concept of being able to read someone’s micro expressions that they may have because they do not want others to know what they are feeling or because they repress that emotion so they don’t even know they are feeling it, is amazing to me. The METT tutorial demo was very interesting, but also aggravating. I guess it is because I have not been trained with METT to be able to read those split second emotions (or at least that’s what the website said). I did very poorly at first because I didn’t quite understand the process, but even after I understood, I still did poorly with 20%. I hardly even knew that they had even changed the picture when they did.
We also use emotion as an indicator of how we are adapting to our surroundings. With the micro expression reading it would be more possible to focus on how one is feeling and whether they are feeling as though they are in a good situation or not. This information would be able to help individuals make others feel more comfortable in situations, which is pretty cool. In regards to the author’s books and many explanations of lying, we may be lying and expressing it in a certain hidden way for biological purposes. We use emotion as a coping function. To “survive”, we lie to keep ourselves safe. The emotions that we are motivated to use are used to cover up our feelings and “survive”. We are motivated to project and show ourselves in a certain way and that is done through the use of expressing emotions.
This relates to motivation because of the reasoning for these split second emotions that are expressed. As I stated before, these emotions are expressed because the individual is not willing to let others know how they are feeling or because they do not understand that they are feeling this way in the first place. With the first reason, a person is motivated to hide that feeling. Their expression has a set of boundaries set up so they do not share too much. Only with motivation would this be possible. The facial structure was highly focused on in the chapters and how it can express and actually make someone feel a certain way when putting their face in a certain position. Not only could a person be motivated to expression emotion to hide what they were feeling, but they also may be motivated to express a certain emotion to feel another. For example, if a person is feeling sad, but they put a smile on to feel better and eventually they do.
I didn't really know what to expect when I first got on the site but after a couple of seconds I figured it out. I found the website very interesting and kind of cool. If you really think about it, everyone has experience in FACE training but obviously some people study it for a living. I thought that the METT demo was pretty cool. Some of them were very easy to figure out and some were very hard too. I think that I did pretty good for not ever doing it before this. I got a 60% the first time I did it and I felt like I did pretty good. The faces obviously flash by very fast and you really have to pay attention. I think that I did much better on the negative faces than I did the positive ones. I didn't really find the video to be helpful before I did the test. I think that having experience doing it everyday seems to be more important than having someone telling you what to look for. Despite not finding the video helpful, I found the whole website to be pretty cool and found the demo to be really fun.
The way that this is associated with Chapters 11 and 12 is that the whole website was about emotions. It showed how different emotions display different body appearance, especially facial. If you are angry you will obviously look angry and if you are happy you are going to look happy. Trying to figure out a person's emotion is done by seeing how their faces look. How all of this relates to motivation is that your emotions obviously affect your motivation. If you are sad then you aren't very likely to be motivated towards something. But if you are feeling good or are happy about something, you will be very motivated and do something that you want to do.
The METT Demo was an interesting exercise for me. I thought it was cool how much you can tell about a person by the particular movements of many of their facial features. Furthermore, I was surprised how much two emotions could resemble each other (as shown in the video). I assume it would take incredible observation and emotional intelligence to get really good at this, but it would benefit people who can do it by being able to get a glimpse into other people’s minds (applicable to psychologists, law enforcers, or advertisers). I myself was not good at this, because I got twenty percent on my test. My issues were I wasn’t observing the entire expression quickly enough during the flash, and the expression resembled more than one emotion multiple times for me. Needless to say, people with this skill have my undying respect.
This exercise can be related to both emotion and motivation as far as concepts from chapters 11 and 12 go. One of the aspects of emotion is social expression, in which we nonverbally (and possibly unconsciously) communicate our inner feelings to the public in various ways, including facial expression. People with face training understand and differentiate specific facial cues better than others, which help them understand that person’s current state. People’s facial expressions serve as motivators to us and others as well. For instance, someone’s facial expression influences approach or avoid behaviors in other people, depending on the particular perceived emotion. Also, people with facial training may be motivated to help or question others if they suspect that person of lying or hiding something based on their expressions. Finally, we can use our facial expressions to help fulfill our motivations by faking feelings to convince people something (I don’t want to be at this interview, but I’m going to put a big smile on, so I look positive and get the job).
The METT demo was a little frustrating. I only received a 40% on the practice test the first round, the second time I received a 60%. I was actually surprised to get 60% the last time because I thought it was difficult. I focused mainly on the mouth of the person. Whether or not the lips slanted downward or upward helped me make my decision. If the lips were slanting down I would condense my choices to sad, anger, disgust, and fear. Then I would remember how they eyes were and if they were wide open or somewhat closed and go from there. If the mouth slanted upward I would choose from happy, surprised, or content. I think this training could be very beneficial to those in law enforcement, social work etc. Under the microexpressions tab it states how the training can help one decide if an emotion was covered up or not.
If one takes the biological stance emotions cannot be controlled. Therefore, METT training can be a useful tool to examine different emotions in individuals. The text discusses how emotions are a physiological reaction to an event. They are involuntary and therefore will be shown through our facial expressions. This can be helpful for professional who have to examine whether or not a individual is being truthful. This can be related to motivation because when an individual’s goals are at stake emotions are at an all time high. Through the emotions the person is expressing we can make assumptions on their motivation. The negative emotions could mean their motivation and effort is low. The positive emotions could demonstrate that the person’s well-being is high and their adapting well to different situations through their motivation.
As the book says emotions are more than just our feelings there is a complex combination of facial expressions and the social context of where the emotion is being expressed. The split second that the facial expressions were shown to us in the MET Demo caught me way off guard at first, but what did I expect emotions are very quick when expressing them. What I thought was interesting was when I was watching the quick display of emotions I would think as to when I last experienced those emotions, reminding me of the mood I was in. While doing this it affected my bodily arousal, I would either feel more negative or positive depending on the mood. For the purpose of the exercise the people were more in relation to social-expressive because all we could see what the facial expression of the feelings, opposed to the social context of the emotion. With each one of the expressed emotions I would tend to focus on the center part of the face seeing the changes in eyes and mouth, the facial musculature changed due to the feeling being shown.
I love the show Lie to Me, so I was familiar with the concept of microexpressions. I chose to read the book by Paul Ekman for my book report because I knew that Lie to Me was based off of his science. I was not ready for how MICRO microexpressions actually are! The METT Demo was really fascinating to me. The pictures that they flashed were too quick for me to really distinguish what the emotion being displayed was. I scored a 40% on the practice test. My technique for figuring out the emotions being shown was to observe one part of the face and watch for what it did. I would then base my answer off of that. It might not have been the best strategy, seeing as I only got 40% correct. This exercise related to the chapters in the book about emotion because chapter 12 talked some about the muscles in the face that show emotion. The demo spoke in laymen’s terms with how they described the changes in the angry man’s face. I really enjoyed the demo and would have liked to be able to learn more (good thing I’m not done with the book for my book report yet). If biological perspective discussed in the book (for which Paul Ekman is a supporter) is accurate, we cannot initially control our emotions. It may be because we do not immediately know we are feeling that way, but we always show some sign of an emotion as we experience it. The display can be a microexpression. The METT demo showed me how tough of a job it is for body language experts to be able to recognize microexpressions right away.
When I first went to the site it didn’t take long for my mind to start wondering. At first glance all I could think about was “Face-off”, “The Mentalist”, and then in the middle of the web page was “Lie to me” all awesome TV shows that relay on knowing how the body works and moves. So when it comes to experts like (psychologists, sales people, or law enforcers) that are able to utilize their skills and distinguish between the 36 different facial muscles involved in expressions, I’ll be happy with just being able to recognize the 8 basic facial muscle of emotions. Doing the METT Demo allowed me to do just that, giving me a score of 60% my first time through. Really the only thing I focused on was the four muscle groups involved with the mouth and getting only a 60% goes to show that you can miss read an emotion by just focusing on one area. This exercise can be motivational in the sense that social expression (sometimes unconsciously) express our inner feelings to the public, in a variety of ways. Having facial training in this area we are able to understand and differentiate cues better than others, giving them feedback that serves as motivation to understand a person’s current state.
I thought this website was definitely interesting, yet very frustrating as well because for some reason I couldn’t figure it out (haha). After I clicked start I must have looked away for a split second because all I saw was a normal face, but thankfully I figured it out! Although. I did not do so well on the quiz; I unfortunately only scored a 20% the first time I attempted. It was very hard for me to catch the emotions in that split second. After doing it for the 2nd time I started to realize how crazy it was on how emotions can change so quickly and also how they can look so similar as well. I thought the happy and surprised looked pretty similar (from what I could see). Also, sometimes I think it could be hard because people show their emotions in different ways, and people have different definitions for different emotions (although most people look and see them the same!). I think that people who actually study this type of stuff for a living are incredible, because I think you would need to have a lot of talent to really understand and notice all of the emotions. For me personally, it would probably get frustrating, just as this demo. Also, I think that this could be used in many different careers as well. I think that some professions, such as law enforcement or something like the FBI could benefit from this because they could hopefully notice is someone it lying or not.
The whole website relates to emotions in general, which is exactly what chapter 11 and 12 were about. According to the text, facial expressions come into play when it comes to the social expressions of emotions, which is what we are seeing in the demo. We have to see someone’s face to usually understand how their emotions. Even if they are trying to ‘hide’ there emotions, they usually cannot hide their facial expressions since it is just a natural reaction, even if it just does happen for a split second. Our emotions and facial expressions are something that is used every day, even when we do not realize it! It is just a natural reaction that pretty much happens to everyone, and without this the world would be a totally different place.
I think that our emotions can definitely relate to motivation. For one thing, I think our emotions can possibly show our motivational level we are experiencing at the moment. If we are sad, frustrated or upset there is a good chance our motivation level is down. Yet, if we are happy and excited, maybe our motivation level is higher.
The face and it’s expressions are becoming very familiar to me, but after the METT Demo I realized I may not be an expert like I thought. Micro expressions are very hard to detect because they happen so quickly. The first time I took the quiz I scored 60%, I was very disappointed with that score. I missed the first example completely because I wasn’t paying attention. For the first three expressions I completely guessed because I couldn’t see the face fast enough. But after the third missed face I decided to really focus. I focused on the eye brows because they seem to be the large determiner of what emotion a person is having. After concentrating on the eye brows I did much better on the rest of the quiz. I took the quiz again and received a 80% which made happy because it meant I learned something and was starting to understand micro emotions and I was getting more facial training.
The way we quickly express our emotions is social expression, which is when we communicate our feelings nonverbally with others. The different emotions I tried to detect in the demo were great examples of different social expressions we use daily. By giving a smile and not having a bad look on our face we will come across to others as positive. So next spring when I am looking for a job I am going to have a huge smile on my face so it seems as if I am highly motivated to get the job. I need to learn more about facial training so I can understand other’s inner feelings better. It could help me see what they are really motivated to do and how they feel about me or the topic we are discussing.
I found the information on Ekaman’s website to be interesting, because I felt like I am someone who can pick up on the way people are feeling fairly well. I watched a couple of his videos and got some tips from there on what to look for too. However, when I took the quiz for the first time I only got 40%. I completely missed the first expression because it when so fast and I just thought my computer glitched or something. Afterwards I went and looked at more videos and to get some more info, and retook the quiz and ended with an 80%. I was more pleased with score, but the picture of disgust kept messing me up and I kept calling it contempt, but overall I was pleased with my results. I also believe that this could be very helpful for people who are in occupations that require them to work with people and feed off the way they are feeling and expressing themselves.
I also thought this is a good example of some of the information we read in the textbook because people do mostly communicate via their nonverbal cues. People then pick up on what information they read from other people and then they will behave in certain manners to accommodate accordingly. I also felt the DEMO represents some of the basic emotions very well and they were easy to be picked up on. I feel like this information can be related back to motivation because as I said before people will act in certain ways based on the emotions they read on another person’s face. It also tells people that they should be aware of the type of emotion they might be showing in situations and if it is benefiting them or harming them.
Face Training
When I looked through the demo I found the example tape interesting and useful. It explained small differences and I liked that it went through the emotions slowly and thoroughly. I also can see how people especially in law enforcement would find reading faces useful. However when I took the quiz the facial expressions happened in like a millisecond and I have no idea how anyone could read a facial expression that happened that quickly and was gone in a blink. I only got 40% right when I took the quiz. I think if someone was able to read all of those facial expressions correctly that quickly, not just on the quiz but in real life, it would be extremely useful. I don’t think people realize how many emotions play across our faces. Even a person who is trying to keep a blank face when a nerve is struck or they go through an emotion it plays across their face and for that brief moment I don’t think people have much control over it. This makes a lot of sense because in chapters 11 and 12 it talked about how emotions were very brief and a lot of them we don’t have control over. So in terms of facial expressions it makes sense that they would play across our face, even if we were trying to keep our faces blank and emotionless.
Relating emotion to motivation is easy because we can clearly see how our feelings can drive us on a certain path. However, with facial expressions it’s a little bit trickier to see how that could directly affect someone’s motivation. If someone was experiencing sad, angry, or even disgust and they did not want the people around them to know what they were feeling I could see that being a big motivator to not show or feel those emotions. Or if you were in a job or situation where it was important to always keep a blank face it would be a motivator to learn how to control your emotions and school your facial expressions.
I was not sure what to expect from the METT Demo, but I had an idea after reading the agreement form and observing other links on the website. This website was very fascinating to me. Facial expressions are something that we are surrounded with daily. In order to have healthy relationships we must have the competence to be able to recognize these factors. The METT demo was interesting. I had never completed a test like that before. Some faces were easier to recognize than others. Some expressions I thought were one emotion, but they were a different one, closely related. Although the test took place very quickly, it was still somewhat easy to complete the demo. Experiencing these faces in person is better practice in my opinion, but I still like the concept. As discussed in class, there seem to be more negatively affiliated facial expressions, as the demo displayed.
Chapter 11 & 12 were all about emotions. The METT demo relates to these chapters because it displayed different emotions that are displayed through facial expressions. There are many ways to express your emotions nonverbally, and maybe not even be aware of it. People that study face training often recognize these cues more than the average Joe, but there are some expressions that are easier to pick up than others. Some facial expressions show avoidance behaviors. Such as avoiding a big scary dog and having a look of terror on your face. Using out facial expressions is also a way we mimic how we think other people want us to feel. If a person is having a crappy day, they should put a smile on when they get to work in order to be perceived as happy and motivated.
The METT Demo for me was really interesting. When I was watching the training video It was going really slowly, so when I got to the test I was not ready for how fast the face moved and changed. It took a couple getting used to, but I was able to get the last 3 correct, but the second time I found it was a little easier because I knew they were coming quickly. Now the site I found really cool because I think that I can read people’s faces sometimes and tell what they are feeling, but I wasn’t aware that people studied people and their emotions quiet like this.
This relates back to the chapter because social express is when you show emotion non-verbally and this is pretty much what the exercise was, trying to figure out what the person’s emotion was without having any sound or words.
This METT Demo was not as interesting for me because I have already done this once before. Although, I still find the concept behind it highly interesting. When doing the practice rounds, I think the slowness of the facial expressions through me off a little bit (yet again) when it came to watching the actual demo. I unfortunetly still received 0% on my first try, then 80% on the second try. I can see why it would take years of innovation to study facial expressions and what messages they are actually conveying. With everyone having the same universal facial expressions, but everyone expressing them slightly differently can become confusing, such as anger and disgust (which can have similar expressions). Overall, I thought this quick demo is a good icon for letting people know how much our facial expressions send emotional messages.
This demo relates to the science of emotion on the facial expression part as well as the emotional contagion effect. It supports the notion of our communication through nonverbal images of one another and how we react or interpret them. I think this is connected to motivation in that when viewing another's expression, whethor good or bad, motivates us to either avoid them (anger, disgust, annoyed) or approach them (emotional contagion) by smiling back or saying "Hello!" (happy, content).
Chapter 11 focused on the dimensions of emotions such as biological and cognitive perspectives and what causes them; whereas chapter 12 focused more on Aspects of emotions and what fundamental emotions look like. Although there are 10 fundamental emotions, the book emphasized anger, joy, fear, disgust, distress and interest. Paul Ekman’s Face training synchronizes all concepts from both chapters into one in order to better understand emotions through facial musculature.
I thought it was interesting to find that something that seems so second nature to most people can be analyzed in such a precise way that Government agencies, Fortune 500 companies and other professionals can utilize this training to enhance their ability to detect potential lies.
I didn’t think the METT DEMO was very helpful in helping detect lies because it focused more on what just a few emotions would like; I didn’t hear any information regarding lies. Though it was helpful to see what the difference would be in a person who was disgusted versus angry. I learned that someone who is disgusted will raise their orbicularis oris, and scrunch their nasalis. Someone who expresses anger will lower their corrugators and purse their lips together.
I think being knowledgeable about facial recognition is just as important as communication within companies, co-workers, and loved ones. When we communicate with others it is important to know how engaged the other party is in the conversation. This type of training could be useful because it could be utilized to keep people interested in the subject matter. This relates to motivation in the amount of facial expression an individual chooses to show. For instance, my friend just got engaged after being together for 5 years. When she came to tell her friends and family, she waited to tell them until her fiancé showed up, acting as normal as possible. Finally when he arrived, she blurted it out and expressed happiness while everyone else was surprised. She was motivated to wait for her fiancé arrival and she was motivated to hold in her emotions until then. Also, we are motivated every single day, whether it is for something small or big. Right now I am starving so I am motivated to get food. I’m also motivated to graduate in May, and I show my anxious and happy motivated behavior through my facial expressions, as does everyone else.
Terms: biological perspective, cognitive perspective, dimensions of emotions, face training, fundamental emotions, anger, joy, fear, disgust, distress, interest, facial musculature, orbicularis oris, nasalis. Corrugator, motivation, facial expression.
The METT Face Demo was a challenge for me. The images went too fast that to me it just looked like their heads were twitching; I didn't see any facial expressions at all. However, once when I freezed the image I was able to understand what each facial expression was rather quickly. I browsed around the site and found his comments to the show Lie to Me. He states that this show's purpose is to help people detect what the emotion is through facial expression, rather than detecting what caused it or who it's directed at. The point of these workshops is to aid people in interpreting facial expressions, especially people with autism who have a difficult time distinguishing them.
This website relates to chapters 11 and 12 in the textbook by describing facial expression. Even though the text provides more detailed information about this hypothesis, the website offers the chance to practice hand-on. As I stated above, the training helps detect these emotions instead of the causes of them, which is what chapter 12 describes - that the FFH modifies the intensity of the emotion.The training also introduces us to the basic emotions of anger, disgust, sad, happy, contempt, fear, and surprise that were discussed more thoroughly in the text. This relates to motivation in a broad level. It displays its effects biologically, through difference in neural firing, cognitively, through differences in coping and social functions of the emotions felt after a significant event, and through facial feedback and physiologically. More simply, emotions help direct and energize behavior. Negative emotions may lead to a motivational avoidant state like disgust, however, if it's fear, it may produce an approach-motivational coping strategy, such as the "flight or fight" mechanism.
The METT Demo was interesting. The first time I went through the training I got a 60%, but the second time, since I was watching more closely and knew what to watch for, I got a 100%. It’s amazing that you are able to tell a person’s emotion and the way they are feeling by a brief second of flash of their face. It shows how much emotion is a part of us. When talking to most people it is usually easy to tell how they are feeling without even knowing them or asking them. However, this is not always the case, I have people ask me all the time if I am mad when I am just sitting or thinking. I also have people who just met me think that for some reason I didn’t like them, its like if I am not smiling, I look pissed. Emotion definitely has a look, and for the most part they are universal, I just don’t like to assume I always know someone’s emotion from the look on their face because I have been so wrongly “read” so many times. Emotion does relate to motivation though, and in this training we see that seeing someone with a look of anger or disgust makes us think a bit differently than the person who was happy or content. We think about their motivation differently and it motivates us to respond differently to them. Like I said before, people who think I don’t like them because of a look on my face ignore me and then I get the idea that they don’t like me, and our behaviors are completely different than they would be if they didn’t see my facial expression and a wrongly perceived emotion.
Completing the METT Demo was a strange experience. I just felt like I was guessing at the each one cause it was too fast for me to really see anything discerning. I scored a 30% which can probably be credited to chance. It was interesting to learn about F.AC.E. Training and micro expressions. While I do not doubt that these micro expressions do occur, I think detecting them and then attempting to conclude if someone is lying or telling the truth is junk science. Though it is a part of some popular shows on television now, that doesn’t mean that it is a real science, just as there are shows about psychics and what have you doesn’t make that any more a real phenomena. I think it is neat that with some training certain people can pick up these micro expressions. The problem is that I would not assign them much value as lie detectors. It is easy to review tapes of people after they have been proven to have been lying and pick up these micro expressions and assign one of them as an expression of deceit. This is an example of the post hoc fallacy. I think if you watch someone long enough you will see many micro expressions and to find examples of deceit after the fact is a lot different than finding them without the knowledge of if they are being truthful or not.
I think people present themselves is many different ways and just like other so-called lie detector tests or interrogations, the experience itself can be so nerve wrenching that is may cause one to look or act in a manner that may be interpreted as deceitful and defensive. Personally, I know I appear nervous when being questioned even if I am being truthful and if someone doesn’t know me that well it would appear that I might be being deceitful. Also, I think some people who have a good sense of awareness and emotional control could control how their outwardly appearing expressions would be interpreted as.
I would relate this to the science of emotion in that we are able to detect certain universal facial patterns that demonstrated basic emotions, whether they be a split second or a few seconds. We are all basically the same physiologically and therefore we display similar patterns of emotion through our facial expressions. All of this relates to motivation because we think if we can judge someone’s emotion within a certain context, we can then also judge their motivation for acting in a certain manner and how they may act in the future.
This is a really cool site and I enjoyed the METT Training demo. Like another person who mentioned this, I saw the advertisement for Fox's show Lie to Me and immediately knew what this training was going to be. I haven't ever seen that show but the previews always looked interesting because of the subject: facial expressions. I took read through the demo and took the practice test and failed miserably with 40% correct. Absolutely awful. It was so hard for me to recognize the emotion on the faces because you only saw them for a split second. The very first emotion I was given was sadness and I wasn't paying very close attention and totally missed it! This guy's face hardly changed except for his mouth. Once I froze the emotion I could definitely see it but it still took me a couple of times repeating the split second image to actually recognize the emotion that quickly. I can understand how this might be helpful to "read" a person but I feel like you need to be an expert with a ton of training. It seems like it would be too easy to mistake a split second emotion for something it isn't. Overall I thought it was interesting to read about and to see examples of as well.
This definitely relates to the topic of emotion and the different aspects of it in Chapters 11 and 12. You really learn what an emotion is and how the body acts physiologically. The arousal component of emotion would be especially easy to catch in some cases I would imagine. Having this training would also help you define all kinds of emotions from the basic biological to the secondary cognitive emotions. This relates to the science of motivation by being able to look at a person's face and detect the emotion they are feeling or the mood they are currently in. If we understand an emotion we can recognize it on others and use that as feedback to ourselves with our own emotion. We learn emotion from others and then act it out ourselves. If we understand their emotion then we might be able to understand why we are motivated to do something or why we are not motivated to do something and what we are feeling at those times. We can recognize the motivation or lack of motivation in ourselves and shape our behavior based on it. Emotion can be a very powerful tool we can use to our benefit and to our harm. But the more we can educate others on it the more able we might be equip to use it for our benefit.
My first thought upon realizing what FACE training is, and that it has become more popular was nervousness. I think some lies are necessary and I don't like the idea of not being able to protect my own secrets. My second reaction was intrigue. The idea that human perception of emotion can be honed into lie detection is fascinating, and I'd like to know how its done. The demo wasn't what I expected and I failed miserably (40%). I would have liked more reading or tutorials, than the short quiz with insufficient instruction. I didn't even realize the faces were changing expression at first. However, I don't know I would have done better if I had. Picking up on flashes of facial expression change was really difficult. Sad and easy were the easiest to recognize because they affected the mouth which is where my attention seemed to focus.
The concept of face training ties into chapters 11 and 12 in the textbook. Facial expression is form of social expression of emotion. Although people may try to hide what they are really feeling, we are programmed to pick up on nonverbal ques. If a person betrays themselves through their own physical expression, it seems natural that others should be able to sense that. I'm not sure if these split second flashes of emotion can cause emotional contagion, but if they do that might explain why you can sometimes just feel when another person is being dishonest. Also, the facial feedback hypothesis is relevant. If emotion is a reaction to our own facial expression, then we must have that facial expression before we can react and subsequently hide the emotion we would like to lie about.
I have never heard of FACE training until this assignment. The METT training is absolutley interesting to me. I surprisingly, found the demo to be fairly easy, only missing one which was the emotion of fear. I think being able to pick up on micro expressions will come in handy for someone in the profession of law enforcemnt, if you need to know when someone may be lying or telling the truth. I think trying to detect them in real life is definately way harder than online because I was expecting something to happen. Micro expressions are meant to concel what someone is really thinking, but you don't know why unless they obviously tell you.
FACE training relates to what we have been talking about in class and how facial expression is a form of communication and social intereaction. Our emotions take place on our face and tell others how we are feeling at the moment. Emotions activate our facial expressions and our facial expressions give us feedback on if we should exaggerate or hide our emotions. Facial expressions can also help us get ourselves into a better mood. By just putting on a smile during a crappy day can help us turn our day around. This website showed facial expressions are read by many people and they can also be interpreted wrong as well.
The METT Demo was interesting to do. I felt like it was easy for me know the emotion of the person from their facial expression. The only issue I found was how fast the image flashed of the expression, it I froze it and saw the clear image I could easily correct myself. My score for the demo was 60% which I don’t think really represents my ability to read people. I feel like I am pretty good at picking up emotional, especially facial, cues from people. This is relevant to chapters 11 and 12 mainly because of expression. The book describes expression being a result of a motivation to take a course of action and is socio-communicative through our faces. It can come from biological aspects or cognitive aspects, meaning our body can react to the motivation and cause a certain facial expression or our thoughts can create the same thing. Both biological and cognitive aspects activate and regulate emotions, being the main cause for the many faces we make when we are feeling a certain way. Whether it is biological or cognitive, motivation occurs causing our mind and body to react with emotions. Emotions help us adapt and live in our physical and social environments, without them people could not interact. Our facial expressions can also express the mood that we are in and let others know the emotions that we are feeling like anger, sadness, surprise and so on. The idea behind the site of measuring a person’s ability to see and relate to the people around us is very interesting. We don’t realize how often we are seeing and examining expressions or emotions on a daily basis. What we really don’t realize is where these emotions came from and what motivates a person to feel what they feel. It is interesting to learn about the biological and cognitive reasons for how humans behave.
Terms: emotion, expression, socio-communicative, biological, cognitive, mood
I found the FACE activity to be very frustrating. The video helped though. I scored 20% the first time. The expressions flashed by so quick that I would guess, then freeze the frame. When I froze it, it became way easier. I watched the video again and paid close attention to the details. I got up to 60% after taking it a few times. I find it very interesting that some people learn this stuff for a living, so they could read anyone pretty simply.
It relates to emotion through the social-expressive, bodily arousal, and feeling aspects. Our facial expressions communicate a lot more than what we think they do. Any emotion that comes will develop a reaction that the body acts upon. Also, it all starts because of the feeling we are introduced to. If someone jumps out and scares us, our bodies will react will increased heart rate and maybe sweating. In addition, our face will tense up to produce the fearful facial expression.
I have always considered myself a very observant person with the ability to pick up the little things. After doing the practice test, I really don't think I can say that anymore. I was amazed at how fast the picture was shown and how little I was able to register. The fact that some people can gain so much information from so little is just mind blowing.
This relates to the chapters because facial expression is one of the key ways that emotion is perceived. Since emotions don't last that long, it makes sense that the best facial expressions to study are those that happen very quickly. Even though I failed the practice test, (twice) I still find this very interesting and would love to develop the skills necessary to read people's split second facial expressions.
This demo was confusing for me at first. They showed the facial expression so fast I had to just completely guess my first time and then rewatch the expression five more times, and even after that the only expression I got right on my first guess was the sad facial expression. I think the only reason I guess that expression right was because the lips went downward instead of all the other expressions going upward. This exercise would have been easier if I used the freeze button to freeze the images. I choose not to do that and I ended up scoring a 40%. That is not good at all. This FACE training relates to chapter 11 and 12 in many different ways. Chapters 11 and 12 are all about emotions and if you didn't know anything about emotions you wouldn't be able to do this exercise. I think this was a great exercise in showing how important our facial expressions are and how they can be conceived as our emotional expressions. One leads to another. In chapters 11 and 12 we learned what emotions were and why we expression emotion. I think that relates to the FACE exercise. I do think that this exercise relates to motivation in some way. I believe motivation is triggered by emotions and often times you can tell what kind of emotion a person is feeling by their facial expression. That is why I believe they are slightly related.
Terms: emotions, facial expression, motivation
I thought that the face training was interesting. I got a 40% when I did the practice quiz, which was mainly due to guessing. It was very hard for me to detect the face when it flashed so quickly, it usually took until I could freeze the face to be able to guess the emotion. I think it is cool how people might be able to tell the flash of emotion. For some individuals who are naturally gifted in this way I could see this training improving their skills, but I think some random person may not benefit from much this training. Obviously this was only a small portion of the full version, but I thought it was very difficult, so I don’t know how much I would improve overtime. However, I feel as though I am good at reading emotions in people but when it is a consistent look on their face, and not just a tiny flash. It would be very interesting to see what the whole training program is, to see if I would improve and what I could learn about human emotion and expression of emotion through this program.
This training related to chapter 11 and 12 in the textbook. Individuals express a lot of emotions on their face. The face is very complex with so many different muscles to portray many different emotions. Emotions relate a lot to motivation, such as a look of disgust. This emotion is seen on the face, experienced by the individual, and the motivation could be food being poisonous so it is important not to eat it. In a situation such as an investigator trying to detect lying from a suspect in a criminal case, this face training could be crucial because an investigator may see the emotion that is trying to stay hidden from the suspect. The emotion may reveal the truth about the individual and if they are guilty. If an individual is skilled in face detection, it can be really helpful in finding the truth about an individual even when they say otherwise.
I thought that the website was very frustrating. I took the METT Demo but couldn’t get my computer to freeze the image or even repeat it so all I could see was a split second facial expression. As you could imagine, I got a 0% as a result. In the video training section of the website, the only video that I got to see was a 45 second clip on how the eyebrows reacted in instances of anger. I assume that there was something wrong with my internet or computer because I imagined this site to be very insightful just like the show Lie to Me. The theme of the website relates to what we have been learning in class because our facial expressions tell a lot about our emotions. There are many ways for us to express our motivation and emotions without even knowing it. People with facial training tend to be much better at determining someone’s emotional state just by looking at them.
I think it’s an interesting premise: some facial expressions seem to be (relatively) universal, and not many people are aware of every gesture or expression they unconsciously make -- let alone have total control over them. Does that mean that we are physiologically hardwired for these emotions, and have to exert conscious effort to conceal them? Or is it that these expressions are so ingrained in us socially that they become automatic?
I thought that Darwin made a pretty good argument for the biological/evolutionary origins of expressions and emotions. I don’t think that is all there is to it (as social conditioning and cognitive processes also obviously play a part), but it seems like a reasonable place to start.
I worked in interrogation/debriefing for the Army for several years. There are a number of tells that we look for, including facial expressions, body language, protolanguage, voice inflection, automatic/autonomic responses, and so forth. I was surprised that I only scored 40 percent on the demo, though: I just couldn’t catch enough of the momentary changes to evaluate their expressions, and there was no other context to go by. It’s hard to imagine anyone having the visual acuity to catch these microexpressions on the fly, given that they last only milliseconds; video recording would probably be the way to go.
Still, I have always argued that context (or environmental content, as it were) plays a part in this kind of analysis. Can you be sure that the person’s facial expression is a response to the question you just asked, or is it related to some other (unrelated) thought going through the person’s head? Also, emotions are subjective phenomena, and what disgusts one individual may arouse another (to use one example). As with the polygraph, it seems like the operator/expert here makes a judgment call based on a broader (and perhaps unconscious) knowledge of human behavior/nature.
I’m not sure how this relates to motivation. It seems that, not only are we hardwired/conditioned to have these expressions, but we are also conditioned to conceal them. I suppose that motivation could play a part in that, if there is some kind of cognitive process involved (as concealing emotions seems more of a socially conditioned or cognitive behavior).
Terms: facial expressions, emotions, phenomena, subjective, biological, physiologically, conscious, automatic, evolutionary, motivation, social, cognitive, evaluate, context, analysis,
I thought that it was a very interesting way to judge people’s emotions because when emotions are expressed, they are held for more than a split second. When we are sad or surprised, we aren’t just sad or surprised for a second or two. We express those emotions until we feel that it is appropriate to quit showing them. We use emotions as an indicator of how we are adapting to our surroundings. These emotions are expressed because the individual is not willing to let others know how they are feeling, or because they do not understand that they are feeling this way in the first place. With the first reason, a person is motivated to hide that feeling. Their expression has a set of boundaries set up so they do not share too much. Only with motivation would this be possible. The facial structure was highly focused on in the book, and how it can express and actually make someone feel a certain way by making a certain facial expression. Not only could somebody be motivated to express an emotion to hide what they are feeling, but they may possible be motivated to express a certain emotion just to feel another one.
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I found this demonstration very interesting. The METT Demo was confusing at first, but after I figures it out it was intriguing to get just a glimpse of emotional expression. I got 40%, which I thought was terrible until I looked through what some of the other students got and felt pretty good about that 40%. Unfortunately, that being said I only recognized the emotional attachment to two of the faces, and here i thought I was pretty good at reading people. Clearly, not so much. I was very interested in this demonstration because it was so interesting and so revealing that maybe we can't tell people's emotions at first glance. I think the biggest determent to being able to read their faces that quickly was their mouths. I looked to see it the mouths were turning downward or upward and went from there.
Our facial expressions tell so much about how we are feeling. I think that this can easily relate to emotion and feelings. We often times express the way we are feeling with out even knowing it by what our faces are doing. Sometimes I catch myself making a disgusting face and I don't even know it, then I feel awful that I sat there with that face while staring at someone else's entree. Sometimes our emotions are so clear to others when we have no idea what we are feeling but others can see it all played out on our faces.
I think that this can relate to motivation because some people are highly motivated to always have a positive image and if their face is expressing sadness or distaste they are motivated to put a smile on their face and make other believe that they are happy all of the time. I think that some people are intrinsically motivated to be "positive Petey's" for the world to see and that they don't want to let other down by expressing any kind of negative emotion.
Terms: Emotional expression, facial expressions, emotional attachement, emotions, feeling, disgust, motivation, sadness, distaste, happy, intrinsically motivated.
I took the METT demo on the FACE training site and I have come to the conclusion that I do not pay enough attention to others’ expressions and body language. Once you realize HOW to pay attention and to WHAT I’m sure it would be a bit easier to recognize various mood, emotions and random facial expressions. It would be great to know that people are lying to you or deceiving you when they say they are “fine”, but their face tells a different story. I actually took the demo twice. The first time I scored a 60%, missing 2 out of the 5 emotions one time each. The second time I took it, I realized the examples were the same, but in a different order. I scored a 100% on the second time taking the practice demo. It’s difficult to recognize emotions sometimes when the expressions revealing them are so fleeting that it takes a mere second to miss them. I had to run the picture through my head a few seconds longer in order to try and get a clear picture so I could guess.
This demonstration related to the social-expressive component of emotion in chapter 11 of our text. One slight difference this demo had from the text is it included surprise as a choice of six basic emotions to choose from, while our textbook states that interest is a basic emotion rather than surprise. They are similar, and most likely a bit difficult to distinguish, much like anger and disgust. As the METT demo explained, disgust is very similar to anger except for the opening of the mouth as is done with disgust.
By knowing which facial expressions are being shown, we can decipher the emotion and possibly figure out how people are feeling. Because emotions are interrelated with biological functions, the expression of anger read correctly could help someone to back off in a conversation and realize the person they are conversing with may blow up on them.
Various emotions relate to motivation in that they affect specific parts of the brain and body, leading to different reactions. As the FACE training site stated, anger causes increased blood flow to the arms, preparing a person to fight, while fear increases blood flow to the feet, activating the flight response.
Our text discusses the concept of facial feedback. According to this hypothesis, sensations from the facial expressions made feed back to the brain and produce emotions, thus also leading to motivation. These facial expressions such as on the FACE training website also affect activities like breathing, brain temperature, heart rate, and so on. All of these physiological functions are associated with motivation, so being able to read a person’s facial expression could benefit the right person immensely. Also, these emotions via facial expression can and do affect our own moods and feelings. Our book talks about how exaggerated expressions can change a person’s mood altogether, which could be quite convenient considering certain situations which would require someone to be friendly and pleasant instead of angry or sad.
Emotions via facial expressions which are positive, such as liking, cause a person to have an approach attitude, whereas a more negative emotion (disliking) will motivate avoidance.
TERMS: emotion, facial feedback hypothesis, mood approach, avoidance, social-expressive
I found this website to be very interesting since I have always considered myself to be good at reading people’s emotions, and yet, this exercise turned out to be much more difficult than I had anticipated. The microexpressions exhibited in the video are flashed so quickly, that it is hard to register what it was you saw. For that reason I think, I scored a 40% on the demo. I found it the most beneficial to focus in on key areas, such as the eyebrows, the eyes, and the mouth. Even then, you have to gather a lot of input in a second in order to distinguish what type of facial expression the person exhibited. The options were happy, sad, surprise, angry, contempt, fear, and disgust, which are the same basic emotions that are presented in Chapter 11 (except for surprise is called joy in the text). Interestingly, facial expressions are cross-culturally universal, so it does not make a difference whether the person in the video was from New Guinea or Great Britain. “Sadness” would register the same, and through the person’s facial expressions, I would be able to interpret that person’s feelings.
This has important implications for emotion, because as people in a social world, I am constantly interacting with others. Therefore, it is important that I can have a sense of how another person is feeling. Depending on whether the person seems happy (the eyebrows are relaxed, the lips are upturned) or whether they seem angry (the eyebrows are furrowed and the lips are drawn tight), I will react with approach or avoidance motivations respectively.
I did very poorly on the METT demo. I enjoyed it and I thought that it was a good experience, however, I realized that at a brief glance I do not interpret facial expressions well. I especially mixed up emotions like anger and contempt and fear and surprise. I seemed to view those emotions as synonymous. I only got 40% of the facial expressions correct on the METT. When I could see the pictures for extended periods of time, I could clearly see the emotion, but in the split second it did not appear to be anything. Additionally, the METT only included the 8 or so basic biological emotions. It did not have options for the hundreds of other emotions that humans are capable of showing nor did it have a fill in the blank. This shows that the METT takes a more direct and simply view on emotions.
The fact that I couldn’t easily differ between contempt and anger or surprise or fear may be a good thing from an evolutionary or biological standpoint. If someone has an expression of fear, it would be important for me to know so that I may prepare to either fight or flee. Even if they have a face of surprise, it would be more beneficial for me to assume fear because if I don’t, I could get killed. Also, it would be good to tell emotions at a split glance in order to judge my actions. I may be motivated to act in a specific way based on the expressions of the people around me. If everyone around me has an angry facial expression I would know to apologize or get lost. If everyone had a happy facial expression, I would feel more content and safe. Facial expressions are important cues that can motivate individuals’ actions that follow.
Further, it seems that facial expressions are natural and naturally interpreted. People seem to involuntarily make facial expressions that match how they are feeling. They are instinctual and we don’t have to be taught how to smile when we are happy. Nor do we only smile when people are present to see it. Often we may involuntarily smile even when we are completely alone. We also don’t make facial expressions solely because we want other to know how we are feeling. In fact sometimes we are motivated to conceal our emotions. Perhaps if we are hurt or saddened by something that someone else said and we don’t want them to know how much they affected us. There are also times when it is necessary to appear strong or without negative emotions such as a parent may appear strong in face of pain when they are around their children.
Our emotions may also be socially conditioned, however, the METT made it appear that they are more natural than we seem to suspect. I believe that the test assumed emotions to be standard and universally understood as they had no instruction or guidelines for their test. Essentially the test forced you to “jump in and swim”.
I think that the test did not allow enough for contextual or environmental influences. Do we know what the person in the photo is actually thinking? Are the facial expressions and emotions that the characters display even genuine, or are they simply ‘acting’? Emotions are subjective, what inflicts an emotion to one person may not inflict the same emotion on another. Perhaps puppies make you happy, well maybe I was bit by a puppy and they instill fear. Emotions and facial expressions have extremely different motivations for why they occur. Also, emotions and facial expressions can be influenced by an individual’s cognitions or their social experiences. Those motivations are what make emotions and facial expressions subjective to situations and experiences. An individual’s decision to foreclose or conceal their emotions could be based on cultural reasons, personal reasons, or other reasons.
Terms: fight or flight (flee), biological, evolutionary, facial expressions, motivation, negative, emotion, environmental, subjective, context, social, cognitions,
At first I was caught off guard by how fast it flashed that I just guessed what the facial expression was. I tried using the repeat button but I still missed it. I could tell automatically after I froze the face what emotion it was. After a couple, I realized that I should focus on the mouth to see which way it was pointing. I got them correct after that. I got a 60%. I thought before that I was pretty good at telling what people's emotions are, but I guess if they change their expressions in a second I'm screwed.
The FACE training related to chapter 11 and 12 because facial expression show our emotions. In chapter 12 it talked about the facial musculature and how specific muscles in the face made the facial expressions of anger, fear, disgust, and joy. You could tell when the face was frozen the different muscles in the face that were used to make a certain expression. The facial feedback hypothesis says emotions activate facial expressions, and facial expression are feedback to exaggerate and suppress the emotions we feel. Based on the feedback and the situation a person is in, they will suppress their emotions if they feel it is not acceptable or if they do not want others to know how they feel. So like in the training, the facial expressions will flash in a seconds and be gone. This is the social expression of emotion.
It relates to motivation because if someone is showing certain facial expressions, they might be motivated to change how they feel. Like if a person was sad or mad, the person might be motivated to not be sad or mad. Also, other people around the person might be motivated to, or not to do something based on what their facial expressions are. If someone was sad, they might be motivated to give them a hug or figure out a way to make them not sad. Or if a person was mad, they might be motivated to stay away.
After reading about the facial feedback hypothesis in our book I immediately thought of the show ‘Lie to Me’ and the Lightman Group in that. This group consists of experts in detecting small facial clues so they are basically human lie detectors. Anyway, I was excited to get to attempt to do what they do in a faux-clinical setting. At first trying to detect the emotions the subjects were exhibiting was next to impossible and very frustrating. How on earth was I supposed to see what happened? Literally, if I blink I’ve missed it and am down to simply guessing. After a rough start I managed to end up with a 20% the first time through. That’s right, only 1out of 5. Pretty piss poor performance if you ask me and I doubt if I will be asked to join the Lightman Group. From our book I know that the weak model of the facial feedback hypothesis has received almost unanimous support. That is to say that facial emotion can exaggerate an emotion we’re feeling or inhibit it if we refuse to allow ourselves to display the emotion on our face. In this exercise This may relate to motivation because we allow ourselves to feel happy by exaggerating the feeling with a ‘forced’ facial expression to match it and thus we will feel even better. For example, when we experience good emotions it acts as an indicator and tells us that we are coping with our current situation quite well and to persist in doing what we are doing. In the same tone, if we inhibit or don’t let our facial muscles exhibit negative emotions we are feeling then the feeling that we aren’t coping well in our environment will be hushed. However, that isn’t necessarily a good thing if you really aren’t coping well and need to realize it. This was a fun exercise and was very easily related back to class material.
I have to admit, this METT demo was a bit confusing at first. After I figured what was going on though it was very interesting. I scored a 40% on my first try and was actually pretty upset about it because I figured I would do better than that. It's very hard though to make accurate guesses when you only see the image for a split second. This is definitely something I would like to learn more about and become better at doing. Especially since I want to be a police officer, being proficient in recognizing microexpressions could be very beneficial.
This can be related to the previous emotion chapters in the idea of facial expressions. Facial expressions can be negative or positive and reflect how a person truly feels about something. A person can act a certain way but really feel just the opposite. This science is saying that human evolution and our biology has programmed us to give off these microexpressions whether we like it or not. The expressions can only be masked or blurred but never completely hidden. How someone is feeling emotionally will determine their motivation. Anger, sadness, and happiness will all produce different motivational states in a person in any given situation.
I was really surprised by the METT demo. The length of time the expression was shown was too short for me to pick up on the expression shown. As a result, I guessed the first time around and looked at the expression for a little while before selecting the second time. I am surprised that some people can recognize emotions from a split second expression. I scored a forty percent on my first try. I was a little frustrated with this score because I like to think I am better at reading facial expressions than that.
This demo strongly relates to Chapters 11 and 12 because reading facial expressions is a large part of understanding people's emotions. In addition, sometimes we are not aware of the expression on our faces and the information we are communicating. This can be problematic because it confuses those around us. When I am not paying attention to my facial expression and I am not feeling any particular strong emotion, I tend to look mad. I have people ask me if I am mad and I am always surprised. I am working to be more conscious of the information I am relaying to others. Reading facial expressions would help one communicate better with those around them.
When I first viewed the site I had no idea what I was looking at. I thought F.A.C.E training was odd, I’d never heard of it. Then I scrolled down and saw a slogan for a TV show that read “The truth is written all over our faces” with a show promo for Lie to me. I went through the website and read that F.A.C.E training was about reading facial expressions. I had seen methods like this used in 20/20. I think the METT demo was very interesting, but the facial cues and expressions were very hard to read in correlation to the related expressions. I didn’t realize there were so many things to look for in one emotion. My demo quiz score was 40% I really tried to focus on how tense the eyes were or the lips. It was just a little difficult to observe every aspect of the face as the frame quickly changed. I think this test could be very useful when trying to read people in criminal situations. Facial expressions say a lot about how we are feeling.
F.A.C.E training relates to chapters 11 & 12 because those chapters focused on emotion and facial expressions communicate our feelings to others. When we express certain expressions people examine us and try to read how we are feeling. We tend attempt to read people during social interactions, emotions can draw us together or push us apart, just by reading facial expressions. Facial feedback comes in two forms weak and strong. The strong version being posed facial expression, and specific emotions, the weak version would be exaggerated or suppressed facial expressions. These are signs looked for in the F.A.C.E training. This relates to motivation because how we are feeling effects what we do. I think we are motivated to do things when we are happy and feel good.
The F.A.C.E. training test was difficult. The training itself made perfect sense and wasn’t too difficult to figure out. The actually test was very difficult. I did the test twice because the first time caught me off guard. I didn’t get anything correct. However, the second time I took it I focused on a certain part of the face (like the eyebrow) to see if I could figure out how it changed. I’d rather just read someone’s actual expression. This activity coincides with the biological perspectives on emotion in chapter twelve. Facial expressions are a form of biological feedback on our emotions. The emotions that are evident in facial expressions are the same ten emotions considered to motivate us in the biological perspective. This relates to motivation because viewing someone’s facial expression and being able to understand it causes a motivation reaction in us as individuals (fight or flight). Also, if we are experiencing an emotion that causes facial expressions, we are motivated to act on that facial expression. For example, displaying fear motivates us to run away or take some form of action. Facial expressions also are indicative of the feedback we are getting from our emotions.
Terms Used: facial feedback, biological perspectives, emotion, motivation
The Face Training website was very interesting to explore. I had no idea that people actually revealed any incriminating facial expressions when they are trying to deliberately conceal their emotions. The ability to identify those facial expressions really would be an excellent skill to have. I have never seen the television show “Lie to me,” but it sounds like a really good show. When I first took the quiz I was thinking that it would be so simple, of course I can recognize facial expressions. It wasn’t until I actually took the METT Demo that I was taken back. I didn’t realize that they would flash the facial expressions so quickly. I got 80% on the quiz, but it certainly was not as easy as I had expected. I was actually surprised that I did that well on the test considering how fast the faces flashed on the screen. The face training website was very applicable to chapters 11 and 12 in the book. Dr. Paul Ekman’s described micro expressions as tiny changes that can occur when an emotion is just beginning, often before a person knows they are about to act emotionally. This is interesting because chapter twelve discusses facial expressions and emotions when it comes to individuals who work in a place where they would need to manage their emotions. Some occupations such as hairstylists and doctors are around people that may at times cause them to react emotionally, but they are required to keep their emotions under control. While most people probably wouldn’t realize they are hiding their emotions, Dr. Ekman would give people the ability to recognize and decipher different emotions people are trying to hide. Chapter eleven discusses the biological views of emotion and facial expression. The researchers who support this view describe how infants are able to respond emotionally to certain events despite their cognitive shortcomings. A three week old infant is able to smile in response to someone talking to them in a high pitched voice. This supports the information given on Dr. Ekman’s website. If infants are able to express themselves emotionally with facial expressions, then there is a part of facial expressions and emotions that are not cognitive. Since this is the case, then it would make sense that people could involuntarily display facial expressions before they know they are about to act emotionally. This training is related to motivation, because it can help people to see facial expressions to determine if people’s motivations are true or fake. If they are sincerely being nice, or if the person has a hidden agenda. This ability to detect these facial expressions would be very useful in many areas of life.
Terms: facial expressions, biological perspective, emotions, cognition, motivation
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The website was intersting. I have heard of the show Lie to Me and I was curious to see what this had to do with the FACE training. I did the training and was very back at the practice. I could not see the faces when they flashed. I can see how this kind of imformation would be essential for those in law enforcement and other professions along those lines where knowing someone's facial expression could make a difference. This related to motivation and emotion because this is part of showing emotion. What i find truly fascinating is that no matter where you are in the world mostly our expression, like happy, sad, etc., are the same. People say that math is the universal language but so is facial expression. You may not be able to speak another's language but you can tell how they feel mostly by what is written on their face. The FACE training also relates to our chapter because it only covers what the book tells us are the basic emotions.