Every other feeling,of which there may be thousands,was thought to derive from this six-strong group.More complex expressions of emotion were likely to be learned and therefore more specific to each culture.An incredulous or indignant Pacific islander might not be able to show an Essex girl exactly how she felt.
But now it is believed that,whereas gestures do not cross cultural boundaries well,many more facial expressions than Darwins half-dozen are shared worldwide.___________(47).The Mind Reading is a systematic record of each of these expressions being acted out.
The project was conceived by Professor Simon Baron-Cohen of the autism research centre in Cambridge as an aid for people with autism,who have difficulty both reading and expressing emotion.But it quickly became apparent that it had broader uses.Novelists,actors and portrait painters all need to draw upon a wide range of emotional expression,and teachers could use it for classes in personal and social development.
Baron-Cohens team first had to decide what counted as an emotion.________(48).Using thisdefinition,1,512 emotion terms were identified and put to a panel who had to decide if each repre. sented a separate emotion,or if they were synonyms.That list was whittled down to 412,arranged in24 groups.fromafraidtowanting.
Once the emotions were classified.a DVD seemed the most efficient way to display them.In Mind Reading,each expressions is acted out-six times,by six different actors-in three seconds.
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