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1. List and discuss the areas of facial exressions give information about.
The five areas where facial expressions give information about are, affective state, cognitive state, temperment and personality, truthfulness and psychopathology. The first one, affective state, shows a persons emotions such as anger, happiness and fear. Cognitice state facial expression show if a person is concentrating and listening or if they are bored. The third area, temperment and personality, is the social area that reveals hostility or shyness or sociability. Truthfulness, is self explainitory, it reveals if what the person is saying or doing is the truth or if it is false. The fifth and final area, psychopathology shows diagnostic information to severe disorders such as depression or schizophrenia and also the treatment to these disorders.

2. How do poker players deal with the problem of facial expression giving away informaion?
They wear sunglasses to hide their eyes.

3. Research what has been found about which muscles express which emotion in the face.
According to the website, www.members.aol.com/attic21/anatomy/muscles1.htm, The facial nerve (cranial nerve VII) controls the muscles used for expression. The different muscles that are involved with this are zygomaticus, corrugator, frontalis, buccinator, orbicularis, depessor labii inferioris, risorius and orbicularis oris.

4. Why do we feel emotions when we are watching performers pretend to feel things in texts?
We as the viewers are reading the faces and the messages sent by the actors. We feel the intended message by their body language, facial expressions, clothes, their use of the language. That is why if the the performer is bad and we can not read the intended message, we do not feel that emotion.

5. Do you think any facial expressions are universal? If so, which ones? Justify your position.
I believe that there are some facial expressions that are universal. For example, the expressions of happiness, sadness, anger and fear are universal. I have not traveled to another country to see this first hand but when I am watching news coverage of other countries, I can see their face expressions and when there is a joyous event I can see the happiness on their face. Or if there was a tragedy, I can see the saddness in their face.

6. Any facial expressions gender specific? If so, which ones? Explain your answer.
No, I do not think that certain facial expressions are gender specific, because that would mean that there are certain feelings that ONLY men feel or ONLY women feel and that is not true.

7. If we can automate reading facial expressions, do you think that will be good or bad?
I think that it would be a very good thing. It could be used in many areas, including the justice system and at times of war. They could read if a suspect is guilty or lying about something, it would save time and energy not to spend hours interviewing them. During war, they could find out where enemy weapons are. It could even be used in everyday life, people could use it to find good honest people to be around.