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What Ancient Statues Tell Us About Universal Facial Expressions

VISUAL Posted: August 28, 2020 10:32 am

Previous research on universal facial expressions has centered largely on similar responses by people from different modern communities. These studies seems to suggest that individuals across cultures classify emotions in similar ways—but the fact that many non-Western communities have interacted with Western cultures (often through colonialism) raises the possibility that participants share surveyors’ understanding of facial expressions not because they’re universal human knowledge, but because they were introduced to the culture in recent history. – Smithsonian

VISUAL Published: 08.27.20

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