#92 Lisa Feldman Barrett: Balancing the Brain Budget
The Knowledge Project
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Universal Facial Expressions of Emotion
The belief in universal facial expressions of emotion, such as scowling for anger or smiling for happiness, comes from the same theoretical view. However, the data does not fully support the claim that everyone in the world scowls when angry or recognizes a scowl as anger. This challenges the idea of measuring emotions solely through facial expressions and highlights the complexity of interpreting emotions through different bodily patterns instead.
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