RightHealth Daily Dose » olympic http://dailydose.righthealth.com We feature the one health item you simply cannot afford to miss. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:17:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Some Facial Expressions Are Intrinsic, Not Learned http://dailydose.righthealth.com/medical-curiosities/some-facial-expressions-are-intrinsic-not-learned/ http://dailydose.righthealth.com/medical-curiosities/some-facial-expressions-are-intrinsic-not-learned/#comments Tue, 30 Dec 2008 05:37:37 +0000 Steven http://dailydose.kosmix.com/?p=1005 New research from San Francisco State University is thought to be the first to show that sighted and blind people use the same facial expressions in response to certain emotional states. By studying both sighted and blind Olympic athletes the researchers found that 85 percent of silver medalists, regardless of visual ability, showed the same “social smile”, where only the mouth smiles – compared with a “real” or Duchenne smile (named after the 19th century French neurologist who discovered that a smile which results from true happiness involves not only the mouth but also the eyes). “Individuals blind from birth could not have learned to control their emotions in this way through visual learning so there must be another mechanism,” said the researchers. This is why they believe that some facial expressions may be intrinsic, not learned.

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