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Emotional expression involves posture, facial expression, actions, words and even silence.
- Cultural similarities in the facial expression of emotions such as anger, fear, disgust, sadness, happiness etc. have been observed. It must however, be noted that facial expression can, in some cases, be also misleading.
- The display rules that regulate emotional expression and emotional vocabulary do vary across cultures.
- It has been found that children would cry when distressed, shake their heads when defiant and smile when happy.
- Despite similarities in expressions of certain basic emotions, cultures do vary in why and how they express emotions.