Author Reply: Aligning Social Relations With Faces, Words, and Emotions

Parkinson B.

How do facial movements and verbal statements relate to emotional processes? A familiar answer is that the primary phenomenon is an internally located emotion that may then get expressed on the face and represented in words. In this view, emotion’s social functions and effects are indirect consequences of prior intrapsychic states or events. By contrast, my target article argued that facial and verbal activity are constituents rather than consequences of the dynamic production of fundamentally relational emotions. This article clarifies this alternative position and evaluates potential counterarguments.

DOI

10.1177/1754073921999817

Type

Journal article

Journal

Emotion Review

Publication Date

01/04/2021

Volume

13

Pages

96 - 100

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