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Expressly Human - Decoding the Language of Emotion (Paperback)
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Good communication, conventional wisdom suggests, is calm, logical,
rational. Emotions, we're told, just get in the way. But what if
this is backwards? What if those emotional overtones are the main
messages we're sending to one another, and all that logical
language is just window dressing? Over billions of years of
evolution, animals have become increasingly sophisticated and
increasingly sentient. In the process, they evolved emotions, which
helped improve their odds of survival in complex situations. These
emotions were, at first, purely internal. But at some point, social
animals began expressing their emotions, in increasingly dramatic
ways. These emotional expressions could accurately reflect internal
emotions (smiling to express happiness)-or they could be quite
different (smiling to cover up that you're actually furious, but
can't tell your boss that). Why did once-stone-faced animals evolve
to be so emotionally expressive-to be us? The answer, as
evolutionary neurobiologist Mark Changizi and mathematician Tim
Barber reveal, is that emotional expressions are our first and most
important language-one that allows us, as social animals, to engage
in highly sophisticated communications and negotiations. Expressly
Human introduces an original theory that explains, from first
principles, how the broad range of emotional expressions evolved,
and provides a Rosetta Stone for human communication. It will
revolutionize the way you see every social interaction, from
deciding who gets the last slice of pizza to multimillion-dollar
business negotiations, and change your definition of what makes us
human.
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