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Much of what social psychologists think about nonverbal behavior derives from a proposal made mor... more Much of what social psychologists think about nonverbal behavior derives from a proposal made more than a century ago by Charles Darwin. In The expression of the emotions in man and animals (Darwin,1872), he posed the question: Why do our facial expressions of emotions take the particular forms they do? Why do we wrinkle our nose when we are disgusted, bare our teeth and narrow our eyes when enraged, and stare wide-eyed when we are transfixed by fear? Darwin's answer was that we do these things primarily because they are vestiges of serviceable associated habits -behaviors that earlier in our evolutionary history had specific and direct functions. For a species that attacked by biting, baring the teeth was a necessary prelude to an assault; wrinkling the nose reduced the inhalation of foul odors; and so forth.
Much of what social psychologists think about nonverbal behavior derives from a proposal made mor... more Much of what social psychologists think about nonverbal behavior derives from a proposal made more than a century ago by Charles Darwin. In The expression of the emotions in man and animals (Darwin,1872), he posed the question: Why do our facial expressions of emotions take the particular forms they do? Why do we wrinkle our nose when we are disgusted, bare our teeth and narrow our eyes when enraged, and stare wide-eyed when we are transfixed by fear? Darwin's answer was that we do these things primarily because they are vestiges of serviceable associated habits -behaviors that earlier in our evolutionary history had specific and direct functions. For a species that attacked by biting, baring the teeth was a necessary prelude to an assault; wrinkling the nose reduced the inhalation of foul odors; and so forth.