Thursday, October 25, 2012

Charles Darwin//Human Emotions


Charles Darwin's last experiment: At the time, Darwin's friends suggested this expression was 'crying from grief' - modern day observers perhaps more accurately described this as 'confused'Galvanising the platysma and the frontal, depressed lower jaw, Darwin described this as terror - today's audience said it was 'fearful/surprise and horror'Darwin described this as 'agony, torture, and fright'. Today's audience described this as 'angry/shocked'Finally a (forced?) smile: Darwin described this as 'laughter', modern viewers called it a 'happy'
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