Display Rules Communicate a Culture's Ideas About What Emotions Are

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Essay

Display rules communicate a culture's ideas about what emotions are appropriate to express in public.There are gender differences in which emotions women and men should display.In addition, evolutionally, there are sex differences in the ease of decoding certain emotions.Describe what emotions are appropriate to display for men and women, and compare how that relates to which emotions are most easily decoded because of our evolutionary heritage.

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Definitions:

Nonviolent Resistance

The practice of achieving goals such as social change through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, and other methods, without using violence.

Civil Disobedience

A form of protest where individuals refuse to obey certain laws, demands, or commands of a government or occupying power, usually on moral or ethical grounds.

Firmness of Truth

This term is conceptual and refers to the unwavering quality or state of being true and constant in beliefs or assertions.

Tribal Members

Individuals who belong to a tribe, a social group existing before the development of, or outside of, states, often defined by kinship or clan relationships.