Are there universal expressions of emotion? - Sophie Zadeh
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
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The 40 or so muscles in the human face can be activated in different combinations to create thousands of expressions. But do these expressions look the same and communicate the same meaning around the world regardless of culture? Is one person’s smile another’s grimace? Sophie Zadeh investigates.
Lesson by Sophie Zadeh, animated by Estúdio Bacuri.
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bucharest is in Romania , not Hungary
Yes, thank you Berserker Mushroom. We are currently editing the video to make this fix and will be replacing it soon.
Hey, interesting video. I really liked the way in wich the content was presented and the graphics, but, just to let you know.. Bucharest is Romania's capital, not Hungary's. Hungary's capital is Budapest.
didn't see the preview comment.
Our facial musle and eyes brow do the work of showing an expression, but I thought before that our eyes and way of talking shows it, and also had a confusion in that, thanks for helping me out,
Ted-ed really has great teachers I wish I had one to teach me
"But if you ever find yourself among strangers in a strange land, a friendly smile could go a long way" is such a beautiful sentiment ❤️
Wow well said...
I'm a huge fan of the stop-motion here
I learned the hard way that when I did something wrong, and my mom smiled, I was done for.
Hsi nhi aai iss baar
Harshil Patel lol
Oof
Harshil Patel you're everywhere
*@Maddie Dhiya:* Male equivalent of *Science with Katie* - fishing for views/subs.
Did anyone else imitate the different core expressions as she went through them?
The Raff yeahh
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The video is really cool! The nice work of talented visualizers (and sound designers :)
This is like the first time i saw a no animated TED Ed video. Awesome btw
Yathu prem wot in tarnation 😤
r u blind or what 👀
I feel offended as a stopmotion animator 😤
this is stopmotion ni🅿🅱🅾🆖🅱a
I’ve been wondering about this exact topic for a while now. I agree, certain emotions are associated with universal facial expressions. Others are learned from the society we live in. For example, some people roll their eyes when they’re annoyed, but that’s something we’ve picked up in movies and TV.
These are the types of videos I like to watch over my lunch break
Ted Ed I LOVE the way you explain things so much. I'm not even big on science but I'll happily watch any science video you make.
Here is a possibility
Expression may be universal, but the cultural norms of what expression is appropriate, and when it is appropriate, are highly variable.
David Lucey Exactly. Men for example are less likely to show emotions in certain areas than others because it's frowned upon.
I am a simple man, I see a Ted ed notification, I click
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I just love how ted ed have diverse animation styles
Some of you might recognize five of the six core emotions, as they can be seen in Pixar’s ‘Inside Out’. 'Surprise' was removed since it was too close to their version of Fear.
To clarify, not all facial expressions are universal - there are 6 facial expressions that are academically considered universal, and further 3 that could be universal as well - but the rest may vary by culture, region, and/or personality.
^this. They didn't mention a few of the more contemporary studies that found a greater variance of nuance among indigenous tribes where they viewed "fear" expressions as aggression for example. Even the universal expressions are under the microscope due to new information.
*IT IS AMAZING* that even the scientific part of humanity was so dense that it has required like hundreds of years to understand that some basic emotions have built-in face expressions. Just witnessing abandoned newborn babies or blind-from-birth people could have made it clear that e.g. smiling has nothing to do with taught behaviours. No one has ever really smiled for them, and yet the babies know how to smile and it does express joy.
Stranger Happened exactly.
Science is not just accepting common sense as truth.
Science is testing out a hypotheses and trying to disprove it and reproduce results multiple times and more things I dont yet know, to prove/disprove theories/hypotheses.
I understand what you meant by your comment, but science just can not work totally on common sense and hence they had to be sure before saying "this is the truth, according the research conducted, and data collected"
The only universal is that people can't judge you if you don't emote 😶
Sebastian Elytron Well, you're in luck if your resting face doesn't evoke the incredibly annoying question of "why are you sad"? or make people ask you to smile 😑😒 People used to do that to me all the time...
LandAhoy same
LandAhoy y, just happened to me 5 min ago
My condolences 😩 I hope you found time to rest your face muscles since then...
Wrong. People judge you more harshly if you don't.
And then add body movement to the mix of expressing emotions, conscious or not and WOW!
Because of Dr. Eckman's research and contribution to emotional psychology, we now have the amazing modern classic that is "Inside Out."
Amazing video!! Love the animation!! 😜♥♥
Really love this animations!
Once when I was little and my sister was a baby I asked my mother if she was sure that when the baby smiled it was happy and when it cried it wasn’t. It could be that the baby was sad and smiling we think it is happy. I think I knew that expressions are universal till then
Pretty neat animation. I love the flipbook/hamburglar switch pages.
I would have guessed that emotional expressions are essentially universal because when you become really happy, you kinda can't help but smile. You definitely don't always consciously choose to smile (or make any other facial expression for that matter), which means there's something innate about it that none of us "learned" as a result of culture or surroundings.
There are two Types of Emotional Facial Expressions. The cultural learned, and the Instinct like disgust, sadness, fear etc!
Video is correct.
This is why blind people can smile despite never seeing one before
Really cool video, and a great animation style :D
PS: You wrote "Bucharest, Hungary" at the end, I think you meant Budapest
Plz help me to increase my viewers
TECH ASPIRANT .-.
Or they meant "Bucharest, Romania."
This is amazing thank you so much for the in-depth analysis
Amazing animation
A smile is universal.
I'm in love with the animation.
This was really interesting!
Man, I love TEDed.
Amazing!
Another great video by ted ed.Keep the good work up.😃😃😄
Amazing video, so informative and awesome animation
Omg how hard it would have been to make such a video
AYY GREAT VID
Anyone who has ever had a baby knows the facial expressions are the first and most important tool humans use to communicate with each other. A baby's smile is one of the first (and one of the best) milestones they reach.
I need to study or the teacher will show me an expression I won't like
Anyone else trying out the different facial expressions? 😂
Swaroop Kadaba yes 😁
Expressions of learning something new :)
Awesome and informative video
4:30 “Bucharest, Hungary”
Good job on your research there TED-Ed!
I feel like an analysis of emojis in light of this is in order
Hi people, how can I get the transcription of this video?
Love the stopmotion😊
First to comment and man i was just watching ted ed ! Love u guys😙
This felt kind of like an art lesson
At my church, the bassist in the worship team is from Siberia. My dad was visiting my church for the first time, and he asked me if she was Russian, because there was something about her facial expression that "seemed Russian." We figured out that it was her smile. It seemed "off" to us. I've read that Russian culture discourages smiling, but American churches (in my experience) encourage big smiles from anyone up front, so she was maybe trying to imitate an expression that she had repressed most of her life. I wonder if there are other situations where culture affects how universal emotions are expressed, e.g., through taboos on certain expressions?
The city in Saudi Arabia is called Dammam, not Damman. Thanks for a great video!
I see what you did there in selecting your characters, Inside Out! (The core emotions identified here from scientific studies are exactly the major characters that the movie follows).
1 minute. Wow. I really am always on UA-cam
but youre not sure
faded shades ... right
You do good videos
Directly remind me of Paul Ekmannn
It would be well worth it to check out “How Emotions are made” by Lisa Feldman Barrett for additional perspectives about this topic.
“A kick in the nuts sounds the same in every language” - Abraham Lincoln
Now I wonder if theres such universal micro expression or not, because details like eyes can be interpreted wrong by people. For instance eyes that focusing and thinking are pretty similar to eyes that focusing and angry.
Yes
here b4 40!
Are these videos really made with After Effects? I have downloaded but wasn't sure it was so creative.
Um so inside out really did their research!!!!
Slight difference is with chimps while a smile is okay, showing teeth (even while smiling) is a threat.
At 4:30 i found a mistake. Bucharest ist the capital city of Romania not Hungary.
so u think other countries were mentioned with their capitals??. i think they just mean to tell the place and country. nothing related to capitals here
Why am I following their expressions again?
"40 or so muscles" - euh, how many is it, really? Is the "or so" due to mutations (one more / less in different people) or due to unclear boundaries (where does the fare start and the neck stop etc)?
A little from column A, a little from column B, plus some facial muscular dexterity, is my guess. Like, I can't really wiggle my ears, so I can't use them to emote, but somebody else might be able to.
4:30 it’s either Bucharest-Romania or Budapest-Hungary. For an educational channel, this sure is a pretty big mess up
exactly
If we really wish to learn more about universal expressions we should study the facial expressions and behavior of babies whose minds are completely uninfluenced from the outside world
don't you ever try to give a like to Justin Y. because HE NEEDS TO REST!!(edit:at least he had his beauty sleep and lookout at the comments,if someone tries to make Justin Y. blow up again,tell me pls)
Tell you what BTW I support him😛
Dark debunker oh no u
Are you jealous of him ?
2:42 Did you mean: *_surprised pikachu face_*
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Hey jaro
0:48 look at photo number 3 and tell me that that is not ”the father” from far cry 5
yes
Ted ed!!
hmm how can we explain when someone reacts differently? when i am nervous i smile and some ppl have gotten mad at me for smiling in innapropriate situations but i cant help it
We don't always smile when we're happy, and frown when we're anxious. In fact, our bodies force us to do the opposite when we're experiencing either emotion too strongly to balance them out. Just explain to them you have anxiety or sth. If they don't listen, walk away.
@@nhunguyen091 ahhh so true! thank u i always felt weird when i was smiling when i was scared or sad , thanks
SMILE 😃
imagine laughing whit out smiling lol
It makes sense. Communication is very important to a species or else the species will not be as strong. It's biological, like the way a dog automatically wags its tail when it is happy, or bares its teeth when it is being threatened.
Facial expression is the result of energy movement, including direction, intensity, and open/closedness through our nonphysical energy centers (aka chakras). The nonphysical is intimately connected to the physical counterpart.
I wonder how many Animators were on Ted Ed
TED-Ed if you are going to talk about EMOTIONS you should've brought David Cage, because he is the creator of EMOTIONS and also he knows how many EMOTIONS are in a polygon (he also met Ellen Page who is an actress because she told him about it)
expression = emotions
Ted Ed- quantity and quality
bucharest is in romania, budapest is in hungary
Lmao this reminds of that "disgust face" meme
Who who here we heeeee
Was hoping the narrator said Joy instead of Happiness. (since there are Disgust, Fear etc)
For reference see Sonic Adventure 2
Emojis are the universal expressions 😂😂🤣🤣
Joker
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Joker tell me how you got those scars
Universal scars
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Btw they are called Glasgow smiles ( ya nerdy data)
What's wrong? why are you crying so hard?
what's wrong? are you blind?
No, the universal emoticons are always sad and crying, because they were invented for sad and suicidal millennial.
Most Superior Animal Classes: Avian and Mammal
Most Universal Element: Fire
Most Universal Sign: Leo
Most Universal Emotions: Joy and Anger
Admit, we’re all Leo’s, just some more than others.
What life has taught me
Isn't contemporary research undermining this sort of view? Check out the book "How Emotions are Made." It's a bit lengthy, but it made a very compelling case against the perspective proposed in this video
There’s a tv show called lie to me on this
Who else made those face expressions when listed? xd
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Hi
This is obvious, babies laugh when something is funny and are smiling when happy
How about the "Poker Faced"?
I thought it were Dr. Lightman and Dr. Foster who discovered these microexpressions
Time to smile in the comment section. :)
The only thing that I’m most interested is these so called “tribes” they talk about.
It was the Fore tribe of the New Guinea highlands that Ekman worked with in this case. They’d only encountered their first white person a dozen years before.
@@critterfreek83 Wow, they must have been really happy until a few years ago. LOL XD.