My Body as a Witness

2021 ◽  
pp. 171-190
Author(s):  
José Medina ◽  
Tempest Henning
Keyword(s):  
Facial Expressions ◽  
The Body ◽  
Racial Oppression ◽  
Expressive Behavior ◽  
Communicative Acts ◽  
Center Stage ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Political Epistemology ◽  
Communicative Context

In this chapter, José Medina and Tempest Henning examine the role that bodily testimony can play in social and political epistemology. They develop an account of how to understand the testimonial force and content of non-verbal communicative acts, such as gestures and facial expressions, that depends on three features: the communicative context, the embodied positionality of the communicator, and the communicative uptake that the audience gives, or fails to give, to the expressive behavior of the body. In particular, Medina and Henning argue that under conditions of racial oppression, all racialized bodies—non-white as well as white—are epistemically valued in different ways and thus receive different kinds of communicative uptake. At the same time, Medina and Henning argue that bodily group testimony is well suited for cultivating in-group communicative solidarity and for giving center-stage to in-group members in testimonial dynamics, and so bodily communication can be used in resistant testimony.

scholarly journals How the Entertaining Effects of Movies Help People to Reduce Chronic Stress and Increase Happiness

2021 ◽  
pp. 102-105
Author(s):  
Zhesheng (Jason) Xu ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Chronic Stress ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Body ◽  
Entertainment Industry ◽  
Social Connections ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Emotional Event ◽  
Scientific Experiments

With the increasing stress from work and study that people face today, easy-to-access entertainment to release chronic stress and increase happiness would arouse more popularity. As a traditional entertainment industry, Movie is easy to access by going to the cinema or watching online, which has become an increasingly globalized business. The present research was on how the entertaining effects of movies are associated with psychological well-being. It provides a study on three film types, comedies, tearjerkers, and thrilling movies. Comic movies are usually welcome, which bring people happiness by funny plots. Moreover, many scientific experiments made before verified that people will unconsciously mimic the facial expressions of characters in comedies, which turns out to affect the experience of the same emotion of happiness through the integration between the body and brain. Tearjerkers may bring people tears. However, an experiment made by Gracˇanin, Vingerhoets, Kardum, Šantek,& Šimic´ (2015), provided evidence that after the initial deterioration of mood following crying, it takes some time for the mood, not just to recover, but also to become even less negative than before the emotional event. Per Sapolsky, R.M, scary and thrilling movies generate moderate glucocorticoid elevation, which turns out to trigger the release of dopamine from pleasure pathways and gain a sense of anticipatory pleasure. Besides the above mentioned, there are also general benefits of movies, such as social connections, a distraction from worries, and increased flow. All of those make movies good activities to reduce chronic stress and increase happiness.

The Role of Facial Expressions in the Art of Musical Conducting

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-253
Author(s):  
Aurel Muraru
Keyword(s):  
Nonverbal Communication ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
The Body ◽  
Large Array ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
External Influences ◽  
Unitary System ◽  
Accurate Reflection ◽  
Entire Array

"Facial expressions can be regarded as an accurate reflection of the inner emotions people manifest towards the surrounding reality, filtered through their own emotional „strainer”. The source of these feelings lies not only in external influences, but also in a man's own thoughts, experiences, level of education and culture, as well as the degree of development of their own volitional and emotional capacities, in which muscle movements are merely just a simple mechanical means of rendering. The entire array of facial expressions acts as a unitary system which does nothing but complete the movements of the conductor's hands, filling them with meaning. We can say that this type of communication represents a way of combining the most delicate, vibrant, profound, and subtle feelings. It would be impossible to imagine that the movement of the arms, unsupported by the expression of the eyes and face or by the position of the body, were able to express a large array of emotions (joy, pain, sadness, rage, fear, surprise, or confidence) accurately and unequivocally. Keywords: facial expressions, mimicry, nonverbal communication, conductor, performance. "

The body center stage

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanessa Montesi
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
The Political ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Center Stage ◽  
Body Center ◽  
Situated Practice

Abstract This article examines Marie Chouinard’s choreography Jérôme Bosch: Le Jardin des délices (2016) as an intermedial translation of Bosch’s homonymous painting. Taking the concepts of distribution of the sensible and esthetic regime developed by Rancière (2004) as groundwork, I consider how dance and translation participate in the political by challenging traditional hierarchal author–translator relationships, by introducing new corporealities and discourses in the realm of the visible and by exploiting the slippage of meaning that can be produced in the reiteration of discourse and citationality that characterize these two disciplines. I conclude by arguing that in engaging with these three lines of thought, Jérôme Bosch: Le Jardin des délices offers a model of translation as an embodied and situated practice that combines the esthetic and the political by bringing a dialogue between equally participating subjects to bear upon a specific context.

scholarly journals Ability of Children with Learning Disabilities and Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder to Recognize Feelings from Facial Expressions and Body Language

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alev Girli ◽  
Sıla Doğmaz
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Children With Autism ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Body Language ◽  
The Body ◽  
Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Black And White ◽  
The Face

In this study, children with learning disability (LD) were compared with children with autism spectrum disorder(ASD) in terms of identifying emotions from photographs with certain face and body expressions. The sampleconsisted of a total of 82 children aged 7-19 years living in Izmir in Turkey. A total of 6 separate sets of slides,consisting of black and white photographs, were used to assess participants’ ability to identify feelings – 3 sets forfacial expressions, and 3 sets for body language. There were 20 photographs on the face slides and 38 photographson the body language slides. The results of the nonparametric Mann Whitney-U test showed no significant differencebetween the total scores that children received from each of the face and body language slide sets. It was observedthat the children with LD usually looked at the whole photo, while the children with ASD focused especially aroundthe mouth to describe feelings. The results that were obtained were discussed in the context of the literature, andsuggestions were presented.

Embodied Organizational Routines: Explicating a Practice Understanding

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Wright
Keyword(s):  
Theory Development ◽  
The Body ◽  
Organizational Routines ◽  
Communicative Acts ◽  
Bodily Movement ◽  
The People ◽  
Making A Difference

This article contributes to theory development through advancing an embodied framing of organizational routines. It addresses the absence of bodies in a literature that tends to treat the “people” involved in organizational routines as disembodied actors. One consequence of this is that progress toward a theory of “routines as practices” has tended to ignore how bodies contribute to their unfolding. Theorizing embodied communicative acts brings the body and embodiment into organizational routines research. Existing knowledge is extended by drawing from multiple empirical illustrations to explain how routines are accomplished when power is exercised through gesture and bodily movement, the spaces where routines unfold cohere with human bodies making a difference in how they are constituted and experienced, and, the routineness of routines is made manifest when mutual intelligibility is discerned in the silences that characterize how embodied actors interrelate.

Decolonizing the Body Politic: Guillermo Gómez-Peña's Mapa/Corpo 2: Interactive Rituals for the New Millennium

2009 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-141
Author(s):  
Laurietz Seda
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
War On Terror ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
New Age ◽  
The Body ◽  
Political Regime ◽  
Personal Account ◽  
Center Stage ◽  
The Subject ◽  
New Millennium

Art—or at least the kind we most like to write about—is almost always political, whether it is inter/national or personal; and though TDR has already taken this up in its “War and Other Bad Shit” issue, the topic remains center stage. In his review of Dutch theatre troupe Dood Paard's medEia, Jacob Gallagher-Ross notes the emergence of “a new age of the chorus” in which spectatorship becomes inseparable from paralyzed witnessing and Medea's tragedy is reconceived as a metaphor for the West's tragic relations with the East. Laurietz Seda explores Guillermo Gómez-Peña's recent performance/installation Mapa/Corpo 2: Interactive Rituals for the New Millennium, a fluid piece that, like much of the artist's recent work, addresses the xenophobia and “war on difference” that underlies the US's ongoing War on Terror. The Burmese stand-up trio the Moustache Brothers is the subject of Xan Colman and Tamara Searle's personal account of how performance can be both art and resistance in a contradictory and charged political regime.

scholarly journals A sad thumbs up: Incongruent gestures and disrupted sensorimotor activity both slow processing of facial expressions

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrienne Wood ◽  
Jared Martin ◽  
Martha W. Alibali ◽  
Paula Niedenthal
Keyword(s):  
Facial Expression ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Face Processing ◽  
Congruency Effect ◽  
The Body ◽  
Hand Gestures ◽  
Affective Meaning ◽  
Sensorimotor Activity ◽  
The Face ◽  
Expression Processing

Recognition of affect expressed in the face is disrupted when the body expresses an incongruent affect. Existing research has documented such interference for universally recognizable bodily expressions. However, it remains unknown whether learned, conventional gestures can interfere with facial expression processing. Study 1 participants (N = 62) viewed videos of facial expressions accompanied by hand gestures and reported the valence of either the face or hand. Responses were slower and less accurate when the face-hand pairing was incongruent compared to congruent. We hypothesized that hand gestures might exert an even stronger influence on facial expression processing when other routes to understanding the meaning of a facial expression, such as with sensorimotor simulation, are disrupted. Participants in Study 2 (N = 127) completed the same task, but the facial mobility of some participants was restricted, which disrupted face processing in prior work. The hand-face congruency effect from Study 1 was replicated. The facial mobility manipulation affected males only, and it did not moderate the congruency effect. The present work suggests the affective meaning of conventional gestures is processed automatically and can interfere with face perception, but perceivers do not seem to rely more on gestures when sensorimotor face processing is disrupted.

scholarly journals Sport and Cultural Events: Willingness to Pay, Facial Expressions and Skin Response

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 201-214
Author(s):  
Seppo Suominen
Keyword(s):  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Contingent Valuation Method ◽  
The Body ◽  
Sweat Glands ◽  
Cultural Events ◽  
Valuation Method ◽  
Skin Response ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Sport Events

The topic of this particular study is to combine facial expressions, skin response and willingness to pay (WTP) using an iMotions Platform. This software solution combines biosensors in human behaviour research. A useful method to estimate WTP is contingent valuation method (CV) (Mitchell and Carson 1989). The method has been widely used in cultural economics (Noonan 2003) and sport economics (Walker and Mondello 2007, Wicker et al. 2016a). CV method is made up of using surveys to elicit a willingness to pay for hypothetical changes in some good or service. Galvanic skin response (GSR), also known as electro dermal activity measures electrical activity conducted through sweat glands in the skin. It is an indication of the intensity of an emotion experienced (iMotions). GSR in an indication of stress (arousal of the sympathetic nervous system) in the body by appearing as continuous variation in the electrical characteristics of skin (De Brito and Mitchell 2019). Only joy and surprise are positively related to WTP, while the other emotions do no reveal anything. In addition, heart rate (GSR) and gender are significantly associated with WTP. Keywords: facial expressions, skin response, willingness to pay, sport events, cultural events

INCOME ANALYSIS AND MARKETING CHANNEL OF ARUK RICE

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-38
Author(s):  
Eni Karsiningsih ◽  
Henny Helmi ◽  
Muhammad Soleh Rafsanjani
Keyword(s):  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Marketing Channel ◽  
Marketing Channels ◽  
The Body ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
Average Income ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Group Member

Aruk rice is one of the typical foods of local cultural heritage from the Province of the Bangka Belitung Islands that must be preserved and preserved. Aruk rice is also widely consumed by people with diabetes because it serves as a source of carbohydrates that are safe for the body. This study aims to determine the process of making aruk rice carried out by Kelompok Wanita Tani (KWT) Maju, to determine the income level of the group and members of KWT Maju from selling aruk rice, and to determine the marketing channel of aruk rice carried out by KWT Maju.  The research method used is the case study method. The sampling technique was carried out by census, by making all members of Kelompok Wanita Tani Maju as respondents. The results showed that the processing of cassava into aruk rice carried out by Kelompok Wanita Tani Maju in Kemuja Village was still manual with simple equipment and required a relatively long time of 7-10 days. KWT Maju's income from making aruk rice is Rp. 1,299,475.02 per month. This income will be divided in two, namely 15% for group cash and 85% divided for group members. Meanwhile, the average income of each group member is Rp. 69,034.61 per month. There are 2 marketing channels for aruk rice, namely 1) marketing of aruk rice from KWT Maju directly to consumers and 2) marketing of aruk rice from KWT Maju -> Retailers (pharmacies) -> consumers.

The Facial Expressions of the Brown Capuchin Monkey (Ceb Us Apella)

Behaviour ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 68 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 250-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald M. Weigel
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Cebus Apella ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Capuchin Monkey ◽  
Open Mouth ◽  
Food Items ◽  
Group Members

AbstractTwo captive groups of the brown capuchin, Cebus apella, were observed for approximately 146 hours, with particular attention paid to the facial expressions of this species. Seven discrete facial expressions having the properties of ritualized displays were observed. These were classified as follows according to motivational, status indication, and social functional criteria: (I) Open Mouth Bared Teeth-threat, (2) Open Mouth Staccato Beep-probably defensive threat, (3) Bared Teeth Scream-appeasement, maternal solicitation, (4) Grin-probably appeasement and reassurance, (5) Lipsmacking-reassurance, leads to passive contact, (6) Forehead Raise-affinitive, leads to active contact, and (7) Relaxed Open Mouth-play face, possibly play reassurance. An examination of the intention movements and the behaviors temporally associated with the facial expressions strongly suggests the brown capuchins studied here are providing accurate motivational information to other group members. Facial expressions morphologically similar to those observed in capuchins are also given by many species of Ceropithecinae, especially Macaca and Papio, with similar expressions occurring in similar social contexts. The presence of ritualized appeasement gestures in Cebus, Macaca, and Papio may be a function of the diversity of diet and the resulting spatial distribution of food items.

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