Asking a woman to a remote village in Bhutan to act as if he were embarrassed or intimidated funny, and probably a teenager in America could tell exactly what emotion he portrays.
Humans have dozens of universal expressions of emotions, and they're doing these expressions so recognizable across several cultures, new research shows.
This number is much greater than the range of emotions that is believed to be the same everywhere. [Top 10 things that humans make special]
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For decades, scientists have argued that there are six basic human emotional expressions, all tested in the face - happiness, sadness, disgust, fear, anger and surprise.
But about five years ago, Daniel Cordaro, a psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley and Yale University, began to wonder if there was more. He spent hours watching people in cafes or download videos from YouTube of children worldwide develop birthday gifts with big smiles on their faces. He noted that despite cultural differences, much more complicated expressions appeared similar in all cultures.happiness song
To test the idea, Cordaro and colleagues showed people from four continents description of a story line (the researchers translated into various Indian languages), as "Your friend just told a very funny story, and you feel amused by it , "or" Friends are surprised to sing aloud to your favorite song, and is embarrassed, "then he asked the participants to act in this emotional state by words.
When researchers shared these emotional reconstructions with people from foreign cultures, viewers could match 30 facial expressions and vocal stories associated with greater accuracy than if they had simply guessed. (Interestingly, expressions of sympathy, the desire and timidity does not seem to translate into all cultures.)
The team also compared the people in China, Japan, Korea, India and the United States when repeat these emotions, then coded 5942 to facial expressions. This meant meticulously recording the positions of 25,000 different facial muscles, Cordaro said.
"We found these incredible reasons: There are many similarities in how people produce these expressions," says Cordardo. "I started to feel for the first time what it was like everybody around me."
(An expression were remarkably similar in all cultures, while others, such as his "special and differential treatment" to react to something cute, are not universal.)
Distant but similar
But most of those studied for the first time in this research belong to the cultures of large related party television, smart phones and other technologies, which means that the examined emotional expressions can not be truly universal.
So Cordaro and colleagues demonstrated in a remote village in Bhutan that foreigners had never visited. The researchers asked the villagers to engage vocal tracks with a story that has been described. For 15 of the 17 vocal expressions, the villagers could choose the position corresponding to the rates that were better than chance.happiness song
The results suggest that much of the human emotional repertoire is universal, and that emotional expressions are beyond the six core previously described by researchers.
But the results should not underestimate the role of culture, Cordaro said.
"Every emotion is reduced to the story," Cordaro said. "The culture teaches us the stories in which we use these emotions, but look below them, there will be an issue."
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Although basic emotional translation for the villagers of Bhutan, the researchers also came in a Bhutanese word that has no equivalent in English concepts: "chogshay" which loosely translates to a fundamental satisfaction which is independent of the current emotional state of a person .
For example, someone could be in the rage of launches or feel horrible, but its underlying sense of well-being can be still intact.
"Joy is a feeling of being indestructible key resulting from the unconditional acceptance of the present moment," Cordaro said.
Initially, the concept was completely foreign to chogshay Cordaro, used to define welfare in terms of what he had, what he felt and what he was looking for. But through a process of recognition of the universality of many human emotions, and after completing a cycle of Buddhist meditation in Thailand, Cordaro saw chogshay status.
"I felt complete blankness," Cordaro said. "It was the happiest moment of my life."
Different access points
This state of joy may be available to people all the time, but different cultures can focus instead on the emotional states that could expel that awareness, Cordaro speculated.
It is also speculated that people can reach this state in different ways, either through self-reflection, meditation or performing "flow" in very attractive activities.happiness song
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