"One way moods differ from the grosser feelings of
emotions, psychologists tell us, has to do with the
ineffability of their causes:
tho we usu know what has caused an outright emotion,
we often find ourselves in one or another mood without
knowing its source.
[Experiments] suggest that our world may be filled with
mood triggers that we fail to notice - -merely seeing a picture
of a happy face elicits fleeting activity in the muscles that pull
the mouth into a smile.
Edgar Allan Poe had an intuitive grasp of this
principle. He wrote: 'When I wish to find out how
good or how wicked anyone is, or what his thoughts
are at the moment, I fashion the expression of my face,
as accurately as possible, in accordance with the
expression of his, and then wait to see what thoughts
or sentiments arise in my own mind or heart, as if
to match or correspond with the expression.' "
this is biology ... how do people in non-face-to-face settings
do it?
2007-07-15
14:16:12
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