Facial Feedback Is Defined as ________

question 114

Multiple Choice

Facial feedback is defined as ________.

• A) the process by which the facial muscles send messages to the brain about the emotion being expressed
• B) a state of arousal involving facial and bodily changes, brain activation, cognitive appraisals, subjective feelings, and tendencies toward action, all of which are shaped by cultural rules
• Muscles send messages to the brain about the emotion being expressed.
• C) an irrational aspect of our mammalian heritage that no longer has an adaptive function in human behavior
• D) a set of social and cultural rules that regulates when, how, and where a person may express (or must suppress) emotions

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Definitions:

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