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Maxillofacial Surgery
Facial Expression
Built from Facial Aesthetics — Concepts and Clinical Diagnosis
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9 sections · 78 slides
Overview
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- What this topic covers
What a facial expression is
A definition, everyday use, and why the clinic should care
- A look that carries a feeling
- Why this matters in the clinic
- Trying to hide the face
- The Scream by Edvard Munch
- What The Scream shows
The face does most of the talking
Non-verbal communication, and what happens when it fails
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- Talking without words
- 7%
- Read that rule carefully
- The 3Vs have to agree
- Still photograph versus moving face
- When the face cannot express
- How different deformities get misread
- When the muscles stop working
How expression became a science
From physiognomy and art to photography in the laboratory
- Expression came before language
- Artists knew it first
- The most famous expression in art
- Why clinicians should know this research
- Three steps that built the field
Duchenne and the electrified face
How the camera turned a fleeting look into data
- Photography made the science possible
- Duchenne with his photographic subject
- A grim first method
- 'The Old Man'
- Electrical stimulation of facial muscles, recorded by photography
- The book that founded the field
- The muscles that make expression
- Muscles of facial expression
Darwin and the emotions of man and animals
The book that started the scientific study of expression
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- Charles Darwin turns to the face
- Emotions are not ours alone
- Expressions of an aggressive and a helpless man
- Expressions of a submissive and an aggressive dog
- Why those two pictures sit together
- Where Darwin's evidence came from
- The judgement method
- Innate or learned? Darwin watched his own baby
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- Why that observation mattered
Ekman and the six universal expressions
The researcher who set out to prove Darwin wrong
- Paul Ekman
- What Ekman found
- The expressions he found universal
- Universal expressions of emotion
- Contempt: the unsettled seventh
- The Fore tribesmen of Papua New Guinea
The long argument
Are expressions of emotion universal, or culture-specific?
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- The question itself
- Two camps in the argument
- How the question is tested
- Darwin's sixteen questions
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- Three objections to Darwin
- Ekman and colleagues answered them
- What the reply found
- The last weakness, and how it closed
- Could people have learned it from television?
- How the isolated group was tested
- What the isolated group chose
- Birdwhistell's case for culture
- Why that argument fails
- Two smiles, not one
- Posed and spontaneous smiles compared
- How to tell the two apart
- Mead's objection: posed versus spontaneous
- The film study that tested it
- Infants show it too
- Evidence from the brain
- How the evidence stacks up
Where the argument stands
What is settled, what is not, and what it means in practice
- What is settled
- What universality actually claims
- The question still open
- Ekman's middle ground
- Take-home points
- References
- References (continued)
- References (continued)
- Facial Aesthetics: Concepts and Clinical Diagnosis, 2nd Edition