Measuring Facial Muscle Activity In Response To Emotional Conflict: A Scientific Study

Emotional expression is associated with communication in several ways ,verbal and non-verbal being the most distinguished ones the latter depicting signsas those observed in facial expressions, which according to Ekman, P. (1999) should be involved in forming attachments, developing and regulating interpersonal relationships. Facial expressions then form a path for human communication as they allow people to portray their mood and emotional state to others (Kuramoto, 2019).

Chew(2011) mentions that there is an association between bodily reactions and cognition that links facial expressions as a way of transmitting an individual`s emotional reaction. Other authors also suggests that facial emotional reactions can be depicted as revealing the person`s emotional, bodily responses in the presence of stimuli (Schmidt, 2001), including their perceptions in the subject so, in regards of it happening during social interactions, it can also be related to when individuals mimic other person`s emotional expressions unconsciously using observation and emphatic behaviour as a guide to do so.

According to Kuramoto et al., (2019) the signals proceeding from facial expressions could be evaluated using facial myogenic potential topography objectively, taking as a fact that changes in colour on topograms indicated subtle changes in facial expressions performed by an individual. The identification comes from the assigned functions dedicated to emotional expression through the face often used to perform adaptive roles in communication between people, resembling physiological characteristics (Magn e, 2007). This suggests that there is a variety of different emotions available to use as a response to any present stimuli (Ekman, 1999).

According to this, facial muscle activity of emotional expression is also assumed to be manifested in different facial expressions distinctly different from each other. Evidence reinforcing this observation can be observed in the fact that humans have a complex array of facial muscles that are activated by perception of a situation or particular stimulus that generates a specific emotion in them (Wingenbach, 2018).