Do humans have more than two dozen universal emotions? A recent article on LiveScience highlighted research that concluded “a vast part of the human emotional repertoire is universal, and that emotional expressions go far deeper than the six basic ones previously described by researchers.” Humintell Director, Psychologist Dr. Matsumoto says there is “no question in his mind” that…
Read MoreFacial Expressions are Not Universal? The study and its flaws…
In a recent study entitled Cultural Confusions Show Facial Expressions Are Not Universal, Rachael Jack and her colleagues challenged 100s of studies documenting the universality of facial expressions. The conclusions of this article are highly flawed for many reasons and below I outline a few of them. 1. The fact of the matter is that…
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