Facial feedback and Event-Apprasial Emotion
PSY/300
Nicolle Matthews
Facial feedback and Event-Appraisal Emotion
Facial feedback hypothesis is a state in which our facial cues influence one’s emotions. (Dimberg & Soderkvist, 2011). This hypothesis is a very controversial theory. However this theory was well supported by Charles Darwin, who was the founder of evolution, and William James, who was the architect of introspective psychology. Both Darwin and James where on the same page that one’s “free expression and inhibition of physical characteristics of emotions where actually a type of feedback into ones emotions itself” (Dimberg & Soderkvist, 2011). Expressions such as smiling or frowning, are all actual feedback into how the emotions are being felt . For example crying may cause the feeling of sadness, not the other way around the feeling of sadness does not cause one to cry or (frown). Since in short FFH deals with ones, “facial muscles and that it does not only express emotion, they also have the ability to modulate subjective experience of emotions and to initiate emotions” (Dimberg & Soderkvist, 2011).
Aside from facial feedback there is another way to approach and display emotions which is known as the Event-Appraisal Emotion Sequence. The Event- Appraisal Emotion Sequence is just another way for emotions with situations are appraised. Roseman and Smith stated that there are four observation actions that deal with the subject of emotions- including situations. (1) different appraisal of the same event produce different emotions (2) the same appraisal different events can produce the same emotion (3) the outcome of the appraisal process elicits the involuntary unfolding of emotion (4) appraisal an happen both above and below the level of awareness (Deckers, 2005)
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