Anger Traits
One of the most important ways we communicate emotions is through our facialexpressions. Understanding these nonverbal cues is essential for both interacting and surviving any social encounter. Have you ever discussed an issue with someone whose nonverbal expression betrayed their verbal communication? For example a wife who says she loves her husband, while shaking her head side to side and frowning. In Mark Knapp and Judith Hall's book Nonverbal Communication in Human Interaction, the authors describe six universal emotional states(Knapp Hall 1997). These six states are surprise, fear, disgust, anger, happiness, and sadness. Of the six, my observation will focus on anger. Why is anger important? A poor understanding of anger can result in pain, loss, destruction, or even death to an unaware observer. Predicting facial anger is possible through recognizing its nonverbal characteristics. Don't most people tell you when their mad? "No always" says author Bernice Kanner in her article Turning the other cheek. Kanner claims, "only twenty-three percent of people say they openly express their anger" and that "twenty-three percent of adults have hit someone in a angry rage"(Kanner 1998).
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Approximate Pages = 9 (250 words per page double spaced)
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