The Importance of Reading Emotions Through Body Language

If you are not using the information on body language and facial expression to interpret the meaning behind a sentence, how do you know if your interpretation is accurate? Do you have to be a master of language to understand the emotional impact of what someone is saying to you? What about when they are talking to you through their body? Does body language tell the story? The answer to these questions and many more will be provided in this article.

One of the most powerful indicators that you are able to read people's body language is called empathy. According to ethologist Antonio Valladares, this skill can best be learned through imitation. In his theory of the evolution of social norms, he argues that people are naturally empathic when it comes to other people's needs. While he does go into detail in how this relates to autism, for our purposes, we can learn a lot about how to best read others' body language and expressions through their vocal cords-vocal empathy.

In autistic spectrum disorder, people with the disorder demonstrate abnormalities in the way they process information. In this disorder, people with autism display an impaired ability to accurately match the emotion of others and correctly interpret the same. This inability to do this is known as emotional dysfunction. For example, they may be unable to recognize anger from happiness or sadness and may instead react emotionally to the situation based upon their prior experiences. The difficulty in relating to others in this manner is what makes them appear like robots with no emotions at all.

Reading the faces of others in this way also makes them seem as though they do not have any emotions; in fact, most people with such disorders actually do not have any emotional state at all. In the context of autism, however, it seems that their lack of emotion is a symptom rather than the cause of their condition. The symptoms are there to keep them from doing things that would hurt their delicate balance of emotional states. In the context of understanding facial expression, we know that each of our six facial expressions creates a unique internal emotional state. When we smile, grimace, laugh, look angry, or even sneeze, we are all conveying different emotional states to the other person depending on our facial expressions.

Reading facial expressions, then, is an essential tool in the study of emotional interaction. Each of these six different emotional states has its own distinct "look" to it, and in terms of the eye-track, these six states can be thought of as representing different "paths" or "normals" in the user experience. We know that these paths are intuitive representations of various types of emotions that the user is experiencing. The autistic child, for instance, will most likely make up a complex series of emotions when thinking about something, but if you asked him how he was feeling about the situation at that moment, he might only be expressing basic emotions.

It's this insight into facial expressions that can be used to decipher the emotions behind written communication. When two people write to each other, they are not expressing the same emotions. This is because they have different "paths" to follow as they communicate. A Rottweiler might bark, while a child might use expressive gestures, but they would not express identical emotions - their facial expressions would differ, and so too would their underlying thoughts.