Below is an an account from a delegate who attended our Emotional Skills and Competencies workshop. This delegate (who will remain nameless) talks about their experience of managing Aspergers, and the value of developing emotional skills. Letter begins: I would like to report on how thoroughly deep is the impact of the ESaC training on my […]
Our hands are one of the most expressive ways to communicate bar the face. The deaf often rely on a combination of hand gestures in the form of a sign-language and facial expression to add emphasis in the absence of the spoken word. When we replace verbal communication with a gesture it is often called […]
In the last post we spoke mostly about the upper face and how five of the seven universally displayed emotions have reliable displays around the eyes. This time we are going to look at the remaining 2 universals, Disgust and Contempt and their displays in the lower face, particularly around the mouth. Before we move […]
I think that most of us would have heard the expressions “The eyes are the windows to the soul”, “that one had shift eyes”, or even, “He has the eyes of a killer!” Could this be because so much emotion is demonstrated by the eyes and surrounding areas? There is no doubt that eye contact […]