Facial Expressions

Effects of Facial Expressions on Our Interpersonal Relations
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Abstract
Communication aids almost all human activities. As a social being, man requires communication to carry out his daily activities. Moreover, communication can be grouped into verbal and nonverbal forms. Facial expressions constitute nonverbal forms of communication. Movement of the muscles beneath the skin aids nonverbal communication in some ways. As a form of communication, facial emotions can be expressed voluntarily and involuntarily. The voluntary acts conform to social actions while the involuntary activities appear inborn in nature. Notably, facial expressions are capable of aiding communication among the sign language users. The shared concepts of body emotions create some similarity between the sign language and facial expression. Besides, the use of facial expression is significant in business, especially sales because of the visual character and sensitivity of the customers. Even though facial expression aids communication, it has problems in expressing facts from different cultures due to lack of universality of concepts.
Key Words: verbal, nonverbal, Sign language, involuntary, universality, voluntary,
Effects of Facial Expressions on Our Interpersonal Relations
Facial expression is one of the nonverbal forms of communication. According to studies, facial expression relies on the movement of muscles beneath the skin to convey information. Voluntary and involuntary are the two types of facial expression.

Voluntary acts of facial expression are socially conducted while involuntary acts are innate and follow a subcortical route in the brain (Zhang, Luo, Chen and Tang, 2017).
Facial expression is important in some ways. Firstly, despite hypothetical claims that human beings universally communicate concepts like happiness, fear, surprise sand, digest and anger, studies show that facial expressions are not culturally universal. Notably, facial expression affects relationships between people of different cultures differently because different cultures perceive emotions in different unique ways (Zhang, Luo, Chen and Tang, 2017). For instance, people from different cultures may perceive sad and happy in different ways.
Secondly, facial expression as a form of nonverbal communication plays a significant role among the sign language users. Such advantages arise from the fact that some phrases in sign language include interpersonal communication gained through eye contact. For instance, aspects such as blinking as used in sign language indicate whether a person is nervous or is lying (Zhang, Luo, Chen and Tang, 2017).
Thirdly, the facial expression is very important in selling because people are generally visual. In many cases, predominant messages that a person conveys in sales affects individuals, especially buyers (Zhang, Luo, Chen and Tang, 2017). For instance, how an individual’s mouth move as he/she talk shows a lot in business, and mostly to the buyer. In sum, facial expression plays a significant role as verbal expression. It serves to express the feelings that cannot be expressed through words, making it an essential part of communication.
Reference
Zhang, Z., Luo, P., Chen, C. L., & Tang, X. (2017). From Facial Expression Recognition to Interpersonal Relation Prediction. International Journal Of Computer Vision, 1-20. Http://Dx.Doi.Org/10.1007/S11263-017-1055-1.