Author Question: Ekman and Friesen (1971) collected convincing evidence that facial expressions are universal. In ... (Read 143 times)

V@ndy87 · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Ekman and Friesen (1971) collected convincing evidence that facial expressions are universal. In their research, they studied

a. blind people who smile, even though they have never seen a smile.
b. a preliterate tribe in an isolated part of New Guinea.
c. infants before they learned to talk.
d. facial expressions on five different continents.

Question 2

Nora has been blind since birth, and has never seen a smile, frown, or furrowed brow. At age three, how capable would she be of expressing emotions using the facial expressions of sighted people?

a. Incapable of properly using facial expressions, she would require special training.
b. She would be capable of expressing only negative emotions such as anger or sadness.
c. She would be able to express all six basic emotions just as well as sighted people.
d. It depends on what culture she is being reared in.