Body Language
Emotions such as joy, fear and sadness can all be gathered reliant on just a person’s face. However self-conscious emotions heavily involve the body in addition to the face (Darwin, 1965). This means that when humans are attempting to learn emotions, they have more to tend to, making the emotions harder to grasp.
Read more about this topic: Self-conscious Emotions, Development of Self Conscious Emotions
Famous quotes containing the words body and/or language:
“Now wait a minute, wait a minute. What kind of a deal is this? You can’t go shoving just anybody’s body off on me.”
—Seton I. Miller (1902–1974)
“The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)