Chapter 1

INTRODUCTION

1.1. Background of the study

Communications and its skill plays a vital role and holds the key in all

spheres of our life. Effective communication takes into account on the way we

use effective words and sentences, and swiftness of deliverance of those words,

its intonation and sign language we use. Effective use of proper tools to convey

the proper messages at the right time can recover crises and encourage every

one of us to work towards success.

Emotion and its physical expression are an integral part of social

interaction, informing others about how we are feeling and affecting social

outcomes (Vosk, Forehand, and Figueroa 1983). Studies on the physical

expression of emotion can be traced back to the 19th century with Darwin’s

seminal book1 “The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals” that

reveals the key role of facial expressions and body movement in communicating

status and emotion (Darwin 1872).

While emotions can be expressed through different modalities, facial

expressions have been the most extensively studied. A smile can convey

pleasure and agreement, a raise of eyebrow skepticism and clenched teeth cold

anger. More than 95 per cent of the literature on emotion in humans has used

faces as stimuli, at the expense of other modalities (Gelder 2009).

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