The words used to describe emotions can provide insight into the basic processes that contributes to physical changes. The present work investigated the hypothesis that physical arousal can cause influence towards perception of attractiveness. In this research numerous of university students has been enrolled in experiment who tested their perception towards attractiveness on 10 different images of 10 different persons by being previously physically aroused. The overall results showed partial support for the different theoretical approaches. They revealed that present study provides a basis of support for a link between physical changes and perception of attractiveness. Data, however suggests that conclusions are limited and that further work in this area should be guided by an appropriate systematic design of experiments.
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Emotion and its attitude towards the influence to human psychology as a driving force (Lench, Flores & Bench 2011) and relationship with human behaviour (Izard, 1971) has always been in the centre of the stage for investigations as independent variable despite recent rise to become the topic of empirical psychological investigation. Darwin’s (1872) work which investigated movement and body posture has only covered facial and vocal domain which has been considered for a long time that although numerous facial muscle figures are trustworthy as signs of different emotions, movements of human body or poses grants information of emotion intensity ( Harrigan, 2005; Ekman, 1965). This consideration is no more braced by latter studies which suggests that changes in posture and body movement provides explicit information about human’s state of mind, more accurately in bodies dynamic movement and gestu...
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...oes for most of the emotions that people feel. I never really noticed any of this before I started writing this paper. I shared this information with my best friend and she was amazed that the way people interact is generally the same within groups in society. She now has a better understanding of the communication patterns and behaviors of people and she is not even in the class.
Emotion is the “feeling” aspect of consciousness that includes physical, behavioral, and subjective (cognitive) elements. Emotion also contains three elements which are physical arousal, a certain behavior that can reveal outer feelings and inner feelings. One key part in the brain, the amygdala which is located within the limbic system on each side of the brain, plays a key role in emotional processing which causes emotions such as fear and pleasure to be involved with the human facial expressions.The common-sense theory of emotion states that an emotion is experienced first, leading to a physical reaction and then to a behavioral reaction.The James-Lange theory states that a stimulus creates a physiological response that then leads to the labeling of the emotion. The Cannon-Bard theory states that the physiological reaction and the emotion both use the thalamus to send sensory information to both the cortex of the brain and the organs of the sympathetic nervous system. The facial feedback hypothesis states that facial expressions provide feedback to the brain about the emotion being expressed on the face, increasing all the emotions. In Schachter and Singer’s cognitive arousal theory, also known as the two-factor theory, states both the physiological arousal and the actual arousal must occur before the emotion itself is experienced, based on cues from the environment. Lastly, in the cognitive-mediational theory
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