Irrespective of biological age, we all display different kinds of facial and physical expressions that let the other know about discomfort, anxieties, fear, liking, comfort and joy. However, early childhood brings a lot of challenges and also opportunities that we've to face with the help of our parents, care-takers and teachers.
Even after growing older, the basic patterns of expressions remain almost the same. However, a little fine tuning, mimicking, learning, pressure of mannerism and a lot of real world experiences make the adults to react, express and behave differently than children.
Also, we try to hide, minimize, suppress or even fake expressions for our own best interest. Moreover, we learn languages for communicating with people in replacement for some of the physical and facial expressions, emblems and gestures.
Please look at following pictures and find how children and adults show almost matching facial expressions and emblems. However, given below are a very few examples that came out of my own observations but actually there are many more still to be found.
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Even after growing older, the basic patterns of expressions remain almost the same. However, a little fine tuning, mimicking, learning, pressure of mannerism and a lot of real world experiences make the adults to react, express and behave differently than children.
Also, we try to hide, minimize, suppress or even fake expressions for our own best interest. Moreover, we learn languages for communicating with people in replacement for some of the physical and facial expressions, emblems and gestures.
Please look at following pictures and find how children and adults show almost matching facial expressions and emblems. However, given below are a very few examples that came out of my own observations but actually there are many more still to be found.
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| Ohh! Look at that. (Alertness) |
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| Yuck! I don't like it. (Disgust) |
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| Do you hear that? (Spatial focus) |
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| I'm ready for photo. (Attention seeking) |
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| When this all going to end? (Boredom) |
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| Can you help me out of this? (Sadness) |
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| What's that? (Surprise) |
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| What a stressful life? (Self-soothing) |
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| You are not listening to me. (Grieving) |
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| Anything is not right. (Out crying) |
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| Hey, nice to talk to you. (Cheerfulness) |
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| It's really funny...I like it! (Amusement) |
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| So horrible! (Terror) |
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great stuff!
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