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Face of emotion
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The Project hosted an event on “The Face of Emotion” as part of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas in October 2011. Darwin’s work on expression was discussed in the context of current research in artificial intelligence, autism, and neuroscience. Video or…
Expression
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Darwin's interest in emotional expression can be traced as far back as the Beagle voyage. He was fascinated by the different sounds and gestures among the peoples of Tierra del Fuego, and on his return from the voyage he started recording observations…
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- … Darwin's interest in emotional expression can be traced as far back as the Beagle voyage. …
- … the behaviour of humans and animals. Darwin's work on expression was thus closely tied to his …
- … years in gestation. Darwin sometimes referred to expression as ' an old hobby horse & …
- … But even before his marriage, he shared his interest in expression with Emma (then his fiancée), and …
- … in 1869, ' but we do find it so hard to observe Baby’s expression accurately, & besides I …
- … was observing his children at home, Darwin was also studying expression in the family pets. His …
- … his niece Lucy Wedgwood to ' think of any fact about expression of any emotion in any of your …
- … in European colonies in the mid-1850s. His questions about expression were often conjoined with …
- … with colonial officials in the streets. Observations of expression were often mingled with judgments …
- … Darwin drew heavily on the experimental approach to expression pioneered by Charles Bell in the …
- … to investigate new phenomena. One particularly puzzling expression was blushing, which seemed to be …
- … may have encouraged them to share their own observations of expression directly with the author. For …
- … Darwin's observations of children and his global survey of expression were among the very few …
Results of the Darwin Online Emotions Experiment
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Thanks to all who took part in our online emotions experiment – over 18,000 of you! The formal stage of the experiment is now over, but it will be staying online as an activity, so if you don’t want to know the results, look away now. If you’d like to…
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- … a similar enough word to be grouped together into the same emotion. Your responses to each of the …
- … in learning more about the context of Darwin’s studies of expression and the methodological problems …
- … artificially-created facial expressions convey a particular emotion more convincingly than others. …
- … 4 (grief and despair) with the correct or very similar emotion, and over 25% of you identified …
- … 5 to 11, hardly any of the participants identified the exact emotion and there was a greater range …
- … answers are words that have some relation to the intended emotion but the level of disagreement is …
- … there is a broad level of agreement on the general type of emotion and, equally, with photograph 7 …
- … half right in identifying the face as depicting a happy-type emotion. Click on the pie charts to see …
- … in keeping with Darwin’s conclusion that ‘many shades of expression are instantly recognised without …
- … possibly because this would no longer be identified as an emotion. This illustrates the point that …
- … 9 ‘bored’, which is unlikely to have been seen as an emotion in Victorian times. Darwin was …
Women’s scientific participation
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
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- … - 72] Darwin asks his niece, Lucy, to observe the expression of emotion in her pet dog and …
- … Darwin’s niece, Lucy, provides observations on the expression of emotion in horses and babies. She …
- … scientist George Cupples, shares her observations on the expression of emotion in dogs with Emma …
- … responds to Darwin’s request for observations of the expression of emotion in chimpanzees and orangs …
Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
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At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…
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- … Descent ), and gathering additional material on emotional expression. Yet the scope of Darwin’s …
- … to make engravings for Descent . Researching emotion In 1869, Darwin still expected …
- … brow wrinkled & mouth compressed & upper lip raised— An expression, as I read it, of dislike …
- … ). Darwin had often complained of the difficulty of studying expression, and was always keen to find …
- … know how to thank you enough for your MS. observations on expression. They contain exactly and …
- … most detailed and lengthy correspondence on the subject of expression. Crichton-Browne had ambitions …
- … Amand Duchenne, who had used photography to capture the expression of persons whose facial muscles …
- … the basis of a woodcut that Darwin would later use in Expression of the emotions in man and …
Fake Darwin: myths and misconceptions
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Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, with full debunking below...
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- … Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, …
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
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The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
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- … swell to two separate books, Descent of man and Expression of the emotions in man and animals …
- … from A. R. Wallace, 8 [April] 1868 ). Researching emotion Darwin’s other major …
- … setting. ‘I have got quite into the habit of observing the expression of natives faces as I meet …
- … Ceylon (Sri Lanka), ‘& really there is usually very little expression at all even when they are …
- … tightly drawn over it and is not nearly so capable of expression as the skin of European faces; …
Darwin’s queries on expression
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When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…
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- … to drill their countenances so as to express as little emotion as possible before Europeans”. …
- … in his correspondents, and they are part of the politics of emotion that was edited out as he moved …
- … “The same state of mind” Darwin would later assert in Expression of the Emotions p. 17, “is …
- … letter dates to see the individual letters or see the expression questionnaire letters in a map …
Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution
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The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’. Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…
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- … Research on sexual selection and emotional expression had predominated in recent years, and the …
- … by June Darwin gave up the idea of including the material on emotion; it would eventually appear as …
Experimenting with emotions
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Darwin’s interest in emotions can be traced as far back as the Beagle voyage. He was fascinated by the sounds and gestures of the peoples of Tierra del Fuego. On his return, he started recording observations in a set of notebooks, later labelled '…
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- … III, p. 415 ). Darwin’s study of emotional expression extended over thirty years, …
- … March 1871] ). Darwin had begun collecting photographs on expression in the early 1860s, and built …
- … the emotions of Victorian readers. In order to present an expression in the manner of a natural …
- … of weeping babies, and other photographs, showing the expression of grief. Another expression …
- … to guests at Down House, asking them to identify which emotion was being expressed (see Expression …
- … us to the operation of sympathy. The true meaning of the expression is registered by the feelings …
Evolutionary views of human nature
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From April 2010 until 31 March 2013, the Darwin Correspondendence Project ran an major international research project 'Exploring Evolutionary Views of Human Nature through Darwin’s Correspondence'. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research…
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- … of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871), and Expression of the Emotions in Man and …
- … letter sets on the themes of ethics, progress, language, and emotion. Other aspects of Darwin's …
- … philosophy, and the arts. These events included "The Face of Emotion" (Cambridge Festival …
Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?
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'My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, 'is so nearly closed. . . What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’, and the tenor of his correspondence throughout the year is one of wistful reminiscence, coupled with a keen eye…
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- … of species , intended to be Darwin’s last, and of Expression of the emotions in man and …
- … Winwood Reade, Darwin was revising his manuscript on the expression of emotion, begun almost exactly …
- … 'The modest way in wch you introduced to me your new work on Expression a little misled me as …
Henrietta Darwin's diary
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Darwin's daughter Henrietta kept a diary for a few momentous weeks in 1871. This was the year in which Descent of Man, the most controversial of her father's books after Origin itself, appeared, a book which she had helped him write. The small…
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- … relating to his scientific work, especially on the expression of emotion (see letters from F. J. …
4.14 'Fun' cartoon, 'That troubles'
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< Back to Introduction Of all the cartoons showing Darwin as an ape, ‘That troubles our monkey again’ by John Gordon Thomson is the only one that hints, albeit playfully, at improper behaviour. Descent of Man had been criticised for its apparent…
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- … over the insinuations in Darwin’s recently published Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals …
- … to trace In woman’s face The real, plain expression of Emotion! The …
- … magazine (16 November 1872), p. 203. Charles Darwin, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and …
4.13 'Fun' cartoon by Griset, 'Emotional'
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< Back to Introduction Ernest Griset’s drawing titled ‘Emotional!’ was published in Fun magazine on 23 November 1872, and is another skit referring to Darwin’s recently published Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. A hippopotamus had been…
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- … is another skit referring to Darwin’s recently published Expression of the Emotions in Man and …
- … H----y were to act on that theory and enter the den, their emotion would not be one of unmixed …
Darwin’s observations on his children
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Charles Darwin’s observations on the development of his children, began the research that culminated in his book The Expression of the emotions in man and animals, published in 1872, and his article ‘A biographical sketch of an infant’, published in Mind…
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- … the research that culminated in his book The Expression of the emotions in man and animals , …
- … other work, Darwin gathered additional information on the expression of emotions by questioning his …
- … the questions he was to pursue regarding the nature of the expression of emotions. As the following …
- … ultimately directed towards showing that the physiological expression of the emotions in humans was …
- … this case his own children—for information on emotional expression, just as he had earlier analysed …
- … concerning them. The emphasis shifts from physiological expression to the association of ideas and …
- … 3B Long before 5 weeks old. it was curious to observe expression of eye during sucking change. …
- … under lip is more turned down than it used to be giving an expression of misery. A frown gives the …
- … last week has shown decided pleasure in music.—his whole expression appearing pleased.— Recognizes …
- … water put in mouth & more especially some rhubarb, he made expression of disgust very plainly, …
- … in his eyes, not knowing what to make of it.— The expression is accompanied by form of mouth …
- … or lip arched.— I think he understands compassionate expression.— Cannot balance himself when …
- … any of these accomplishments. He evidently studies expression of those around him, especially if …
- … red & eyes full of tears. She seemed to wish to excite the emotion again & went on saying …
- … and Gautrey 1972 for the text of CD’s queries about expression. [4] See Notebook M, pp. 53, …
- … been recorded. [76] CD used this observation in Expression , p. 212, where he stated: ‘I …
Darwin in letters, 1871: An emptying nest
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The year 1871 was an extremely busy and productive one for Darwin, with the publication in February of his long-awaited book on human evolution, Descent of man. The other main preoccupation of the year was the preparation of his manuscript on expression.…
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- … parts of the body indirectly, by giving rise to a particular emotion (such as embarrassment) that …
2.16 Horace Montford statue, Shrewsbury
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< Back to Introduction Horace Montford’s statue of Darwin, installed in his birthplace, Shrewsbury, in 1897, is one of the finest of the commemorative portrayals of him. Up to that time, the only memorial to Darwin in the town was a wall tablet of…
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- … disciple and dear friend of Darwin’, spoke, with emotion, about the circumstances and nature of that …
- … follows his father’s dignified prototypes, but the facial expression he gives to Darwin irreverently …
Darwin in letters, 1880: Sensitivity and worms
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‘My heart & soul care for worms & nothing else in this world,’ Darwin wrote to his old Shrewsbury friend Henry Johnson on 14 November 1880. Darwin became fully devoted to earthworms in the spring of the year, just after finishing the manuscript of…
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- … clarified: ‘By ‘Love’ I intend to denote the complex emotion (dependent on the representative …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
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- … of blushing; illustrative of the influence of mental emotion on the capillary circulation . …