This article was on a study that proves emotions are genetically resident within us, San Francisco State University Psychology Professor Matsumoto compared the facial expressions of sighted and blind judo athletes at the 2004 Olympic Games. More than 48,000 photographs were taken and analyzed, including images of 23 athletes. The conclusion of the study was that the facial expressions of sighted and blind athletes was almost perfect, meaning that emotions must be in our genes if we don't get emotions from observing others.
I choose this article because I was most interested in this one, rather than the others, I also don't agree with this fully.
This article relates to what we've been talking about in class because this article makes it clear that emotions are not because of cultural differences or social differences, but I think that that's slightly correct and slightly not, I think for example when a person lose something they really want like..the olympic medal for a sport they experience the emotion sadness, but a blind person may facially express this emotion differently than a sighted person, because a sighted person is socially effected, they may not want people to see they are that sad, so they may hide it, a blind person is not effected but social standards so their sadness will be more noticable.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081229080859.htm
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