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Who painted the Mona Lisa?

What can we understand by looking at someone’s face.

Do people everywhere in the world use the same expressions to communicate their feelings?

Paul Ekman, an Australian philosopher, went to Papua New Guinea in the 1960’s to test the idea.

There he met people who previously had no contact with the outside world - the Fore tribe.

Ekman found seven expressions that people were anywhere understand in the same way.

They are happiness, sadness, fear, anger, surprise, disgust and hunger.

Universal

Cultural

Individual

Situation

Depends

Misunderstand

Some people who are not used to (対面の) communication find it difficult.

We can connect more (深く) by communicating in person.