Topic 2

Dear all, there are three more papers (in Gendron and Barrett only parts about Darwin and Wundt).

Dear all, there are some question to the articles, which you may find helpful.

To Gendron and Barrett:

Is Darwin’s theory of emotions consistent? Support your opinion with arguments.

What are the four main parts of Wundt’s theory of emotions?

To Ekman about Darwin:

What are the five main contributions of Darwin’s theory (according to Ekman)?

What issues are not considered by Darwin (according to Ekman)?

To Ekman:

What do you think about the development of different types of body movements and facial expressions by Ekman?

What are the main shifts in Ekman‘s theory (or in collaboration with Friesen)?

In which way Ekman follows Darwin's theory?

To Peter Bulls’s paper:

What do you think about the idea that nonverbal communication may take place even against the express intentions of the encoder. In what situations?

What do you think about the idea that breakthroughs in computer image analysis now hold the promise of fully automated coding? Is it really without possible problems?

What are possible obstacles of expansion of facial expression measurement as a research tool in behavioural science, medicine, psychophysiology etc.?

Is it really important to differentiate between behavioural ecology approach and „hand and facial gestures as parts of natural language“? If not, why is that so?

What do you think about results of experiment mentioned in the firts column on page 646 that „when the video was combined with transcript or with sound, the correlations were actually lower than in the video-only condition, although not significantly so?“

What do you think about following idea? „Because body movement is visual, it is also a silent means of communication. It may be employed when it is difficult or impossible to use speech.“ By contrast – what is an advantage of speaking with regard to gestures/facial expressions/sign language?