Sunday, October 4, 2009

Facial management

Facial management
Blog Entry 002 week 5
Facial management is one of the most important forms of nonverbal self expression. Mainly it is used to conceal or highlight ones emotion to the listener. There are five types of it which are to intensify, deintensify, neutralize, mask and simulate. All five are utilised to please people, save face of others, to protect others feelings, to defend ego and to empathise. A simple example of masking is as below.
Situation
A mother in hunger manage to facially express she is full and give all scarce food left to her child at the sight of her child’s insatiable hunger.
Posted by Wan Hani Arifah B0802457

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