Anger as a universal and functional emotion

Scientists in Australia and the United States have called angry facial expressions biologically universal, and all the organs and muscles involved in its creation act as additional means of expressing power and threat. They shared their findings with the journal Evolution and Human Behavior.





Angry facial expressions are the same in all cultures and do not change over time. It can be done even by blind children who have never seen others do it. As noted by lead author of the study Aaron Sell, angry facial expression is always formed by shifted and lowered eyebrows, stretched into a thin line of lips and swollen nostrils.

Scientists conducted a major research project in which they studied the nature of anger and found that this emotion has long been used by humans as an effective tool for conducting disputes and resolving conflicts.

In this experiment, the researchers confirmed another hypothesis:

A physically strong person is more inclined to cross the line to assault, considers himself the right to impose conditions unfavorable for them on others and prefers to resolve conflicts by force rather than looking for peaceful scenarios.



Source: scienceblog.ru