Association between facial expressions and symbolic images among different educational backgrounds

  • Authors:

  • I-Tsen Liu;Chung-Shan Sun

  • Affiliations:

  • Industrial Technology Educational Department, National Kaohsiung Normal University and Department of Visual Communication Design, Shu-Te University, Kaohsiung County, Taiwan;Industrial Technology Educational Department, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan

  • Venue:
  • WSEAS TRANSACTIONS on COMMUNICATIONS
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

A series of biological changes happens when people have emotions, such as short breath, sweating, blush, rapid heartbeat, increasing blood pressure. Thus, many areas could be evolved in studying emotions, and this study proposed to investigate the relationships between facial expressions and visual images. This study proposed to investigate the effect of different educations in the cognition of facial expressions and symbolic expressions of emotion. Four hundred students with different genders from four departments were recruited in this study. The results suggested some facial expressions could be perceived differently because of different gender or educational background. The most important difference between facial expressions and symbolic expressions of emotion is that facial expression is more imitated and more accurately deliver the real mind states. However, the symbolic expressions of emotion are more stereotypic and hard to represent the details of a facial expression.