The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
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The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals is Charles Darwin’s influential 1872 work that explores how human and animal emotional expressions evolved and are biologically rooted.
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book
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non-fiction book → scientific work → |
| argues |
emotional expressions are biologically rooted
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emotional expressions have adaptive value → human and animal expressions share common evolutionary origins → many emotional expressions are universal across human cultures → |
| author |
Charles Darwin
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| claims |
some expressions are inherited rather than learned
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| countryOfOrigin |
United Kingdom
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| examines |
expressions in infants
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expressions in non-human mammals → expressions in primates → facial muscles involved in expression → gestures associated with emotions → vocal expressions of emotion → |
| firstEditionFormat |
print
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| focusesOn |
animal emotions
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human emotions → |
| genre |
evolutionary biology literature
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psychology literature → |
| hasEdition |
second edition
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third edition → |
| hasImpactOn |
debates about universality of emotion
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development of facial coding systems → |
| illustratedBy |
photographs by Oscar Rejlander
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| influenced |
affective science
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ethology → psychology → research on universal facial expressions → |
| language |
English
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| partOf |
Darwin's evolutionary writings
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| proposes |
evolutionary basis of emotional expression
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| publicationYear |
1872
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| publisher |
John Murray
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| relatedWork |
On the Origin of Species
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The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex → |
| subject |
animal behavior
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comparative psychology → emotion → ethology → evolution → facial expression → |
| theoreticalFramework |
continuity between humans and animals
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evolution by natural selection → |
| usesMethod |
comparative observation of humans and animals
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photographic illustration of expressions → |