AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The correct answer is C. (Anger). Explanation: Anger is easier to detect visually, it is more visible than, for example, happiness. And it is the emotion which is easiest to detect audibly, even if we do not understand the language the person is speaking.

Detailed explanation-2: -Explanation: Research shows that we are particularly sensitive to angry faces, more quickly spotting this emotion than others in a crowd of faces.

Detailed explanation-3: -In what ways can language be used to influence, persuade or manipulate people’s emotions? Language can be used as a medium to appeal to certain communities’ values and beliefs to manipulate the way they interpret certain information and influence their emotions towards them.

Detailed explanation-4: -They instead suggest that language plays an integral role in emotion perceptions and experiences, shaping the nature of the emotion that is perceived or felt in the first place. Finally, evidence from cross-cultural research is consistent with the idea that language plays a constitutive role in emotion.

Detailed explanation-5: -Danish linguist Jesperson suggested that language comes out of play, laughter, cooing, courtship, emotional mutterings and the like.