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[Affect and mimetic behavior]

S Zepf1, B Ullrich, S Hartmann

  • 1Institut für Psychoanalyse, Psychotherapie und Psychosomatische Medizin, Universitätskliniken des Saarlandes, Homburg/Saar.

Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik, Medizinische Psychologie
|June 20, 1998
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Facial expressions are not just signals or controllers of emotions, but representative signs signifying affect. This ability, like language, develops through social coordination of innate expression patterns and emotions.

Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Semiotics
  • Linguistics

Context:

  • The study addresses the complex relationship between facial expressions and experienced affect.
  • It critically examines prevailing theories, including those by Mandler and Izard, and Scherer's communicational interpretation.

Purpose:

  • To reexamine the affect-facial expression relationship through a semiotic and semantic lens.
  • To propose an alternative framework viewing facial expressions as representative signs of affect.

Summary:

  • Facial expressions are proposed as representative signs, not mere signals or controllers of affect.
  • This view posits that the ability for facial expression, akin to language, develops via social coordination of innate patterns with socially influenced affects.
  • The study critiques existing models, including Bühler's organon model, in its semiotic analysis.

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Impact:

  • Suggests a new theoretical basis for understanding facial expressions and their connection to subjective emotional meaning.
  • Highlights methodological implications for research on the affective meaning of facial expressions.