CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Across many cultures, Ekman has found that participants can match each emotion to the correct facial expression at beyond chance levels. These findings have been replicated in Western and Eastern cultures. To Ekman, these findings demonstrated that basic emotions are universally identified by people of all cultures.

Detailed explanation-2: -What did Paul Ekman discover? Paul Ekman discovered that some facial expressions of emotion are universal while many of the apparent differences in facial expressions across cultures were due to context. He also co-discovered micro facial expressions.

Detailed explanation-3: -WASHINGTON-Facial expressions have been called the “universal language of emotion, ” but people from different cultures perceive happy, sad or angry facial expressions in unique ways, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association.

Detailed explanation-4: -The initial work by Paul Ekman and Wallace Friesen identified the six now-classic facial expressions by the emotion labels chosen by most participants: anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise. These labels have been used by most of the published facial inference research studies over the last 50 years.

Detailed explanation-5: -IMPLICATIONS OF THE RESEARCH This study by Ekman and Friesen served to demonstrate scientifically what you already suspected: that facial expressions of emotions are universal.