AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Adopting a particular facial expression or body posture can actually create, or at least intensify, the experience of a particular emotion. This model is known as the facial feedback hypothesis.

Detailed explanation-2: -The facial feedback hypothesis is based on the idea that a facial expression not only expresses an emotion, but also that expression and experience are linked in that afferent sensory feedback from the facial action influences the emotional experience.

Detailed explanation-3: -Specifically, the universality hypothesis proposes that six basic internal human emotions (i.e., happy, surprise, fear, disgust, anger, and sad) are expressed using the same facial movements across all cultures (4–7), supporting universal recognition.

Detailed explanation-4: -The idea behind the facial feedback hypothesis was first conceptualized by Charles Darwin, who suggested that the expression and repression of emotions can, respectively, intensify and dampen feelings (1872).

Detailed explanation-5: -For Darwin, emotional expressions were compelling evidence that humans are animals and that we’ve evolved. By his logic, if we share expressions with other animals, but the expressions are functionally useless for us, they must have come from a long-gone, common ancestor for whom the expressions were useful.