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Expressive smiles or leucosignals?
- Source :
- Behavioral and Brain Sciences. Dec, 2010, Vol. 33 Issue 6, p436, 2 p.
- Publication Year :
- 2010
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Abstract
- The assumption that a complex and fuzzy notion like smile can be the basis of a scientific, rather than semantic, inquiry can only lead to confused and inconclusive results. It would be more productive to start with the well-defined and measurable patterns of the clearly: visible contrasts that are produced on the human face by various muscular contractions around the white patches formed by the sclera and the teeth. These features are universal, whereas a common word, in whatever language, is necessarily ambiguous, culture-dependent, and historically rather than biologically determined. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X10001627
- Subjects :
- Smile -- Research
Psychology and mental health
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0140525X
- Volume :
- 33
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Gale General OneFile
- Journal :
- Behavioral and Brain Sciences
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsgcl.246346975