According to Current Research, If You Were to Make and Hold

question 136

Multiple Choice

According to current research, if you were to make and hold the facial expression associated with surprise for about 10 seconds, your body would ____.

• A) not undergo any change in physiological arousal at all
• B) begin to produce arousal that would be identical to arousal produced in response to other types of facial expressions and their accompanying emotions
• C) begin to produce arousal that would be unique to that emotion
• D) begin to produce arousal that would be different from the arousal experienced in response to a frown, but not different from the arousal experienced in response to a smile

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