Meaning of affect display | Babel Free

Definitions

External show of emotion or affect, such as by voice, expression, gesture, or posture, whether voluntary or not.

Examples

“We are not satisfied with this account (it is particularly weak in explaining the facial affect display of happiness) but Darwin also had trouble with […].”

“[…] Darwin (as is implicit in the title of his book The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals) saw facial affect display as the external expression of an internal emotional state, […].”

“The marked affect-display, remains, nevertheless, sufficiently similar to the parent's normative emotion expression for the infant to recognize the [….]”

“The face is a particularly rich source for affect display, although other parts of the body may also be involved.”

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