chapter 5 review: fear

Chapter 5 review: Fear

-      Fear usually originates or caused by HARM, both physically and mentally.  Sometimes, the advance fear of danger or harm can be more miserable than the pain experiencing the harm itself.

-      How FEAR and SURPRISE differs

              1) Fear is always unpleasant, but surprise may be not

              2) Fear can be known advanced the harm, where surprise is presented with no preparation

              3) Fear can last a long period of time, whereas surprise is the shortest emotion that only lasts a few seconds

-       The strongest intensity of fear: Terror

1) Reflects on the intensity of pain both mentally or physically

1)   Facial appearance

a)    Skin becomes pale

b)   Breathing becomes more rapid

c)    Heart pounding

d)   Stomach feeling sick

-       Some people enjoy fear, but some others have difficulties enduring fear

-       Fear facial expression: 

Unmasking the face, Paul Ekman, p62 

                      '-The eyebrows are raised and drawn together

                      -The wrinkles in the forehead are in the center

                      -The upper eyelid is raised, exposing sclera, and the lower eyelid is tensed and drawn     

                        up

                      -The mouth is open and the lips are either tensed slightly and drawn back or stretched               

                        and drawn back ' (Unmasking the face, Paul Ekman, p63) 

                1)The intensity is shown

a)    In the eyes, as the upper lid rises higher.

b)   On the mouth, increasing the stretching and opening

-       Fear can be blended with various other emotions,

The facial expression is a mix of these two emotions, for example a surprise mouth with fear eyes.

two types facial expression with the blend of fear and surprise (Unmasking the face, Paul Ekman, p61)