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……………………………………………… Main Body Facial Communication ………………………………... Facial Expression ………………………………………. - Micro-expressions - Fabricated expressions Emotions …………………………………………………... - Emoticons Gender Facial Expression ……………………………… Understanding Facial Expression ……………………. - Winking - Upward Eye Movement - Downward Eye Movement - Blinking - Pupil Dilating - Licking Lips - Biting Lips - Tight Lips - Raising One Eyebrow Cross-Cultural Facial Expression …………………….. Facial Action Coding System (FACS) ……………….. 7 8 6 6 5 4 4 3

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Facial Expression

Introduction

For more than 40 years, many researchers has been studying the facial expression. Researchers has found seven universal facial expressions around the world, though some are used differently than others, depending on their culture. A very famous researcher who started researching the human emotions 1 relating to facial expression was Paul Ekman . The facial expression is a non-verbal form of our every day communication, conveying the person’s emotions on the face and is also used as a sign to communicate with others. Therefore, it forms part of the human body language. These expressions help us communicate more effectively during a face-to-face conversation and during cross-culture communication.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ekman

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Facial Expression

Facial Communication

A person’s face has the ability to send many different messages to another person by observing their facial features such as the general shape, orientation and the position of the head, the shapes and the 2 position of the facial features, coloration and condition of the skin, shapes of wrinkles and lines, etc . The whole face has also the ability to show our current mood. Regardless of culture, we are able to recognize seven universal3 facial expressions; fear, anger, surprise, contempt, disgust, happiness and...