""The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals"" is a book written by Charles Darwin that explores the ways in which humans and animals express their emotions through facial expressions, body language, and vocalizations. Darwin argues that these expressions are not learned behaviors, but rather innate and universal across different cultures and species. He uses examples from his own observations as well as those of other scientists to support his theories. The book also delves into the evolutionary origins of emotions ...
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""The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals"" is a book written by Charles Darwin that explores the ways in which humans and animals express their emotions through facial expressions, body language, and vocalizations. Darwin argues that these expressions are not learned behaviors, but rather innate and universal across different cultures and species. He uses examples from his own observations as well as those of other scientists to support his theories. The book also delves into the evolutionary origins of emotions and their adaptive functions. Overall, ""The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals"" is a seminal work in the field of psychology and continues to be studied and referenced today.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
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This book clearly demonstrates the brilliance of Darwin, His work is still used to day in the study of emotional dynamics.
JohnL
Aug 23, 2008
Another classic from Darwin
Darwin?s The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals came after The Origin of Species and The Descent of Man. In this work Darwin illustrates the basic suite of human facial expressions and allied bodily movements and relates these to the expression of emotions in animals. He provides a very argument for how far genetics preponderate in the expression of emotions, and at what point human gestures and expressions come to be determined by culture. His solution is that the basic suite of emotions have a universal expression in all human societies, but that beyond these, gestures are culturally-determined. (The expression of emotions are also culturally-determined in that different societies have different rules on how openly individuals are allowed to express the basic emotions). Would that more intemperate researchers of later times (those who try to put everything down to nature or, alternatively, everything down to culture) read these pages and took note.
Paul Ekman?s edition is a putative third edition of the work; The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals had only one edition during Darwin?s lifetime. A second edition was edited by his son and published after his death, but did not include all the material that Darwin would have wanted to include, which is now in this edition. The only problem I have with it is that Ekman discusses his own research in this area in text boxes where Darwin?s words suggest such a discussion. This seems rather presumptuous, and I would have thought it would have been better to put this discussion in footnotes.
