Tuesday, January 8, 2008

More Thoughts On Timeless Universal Icon

Paul Ekman did a pretty good job at showing that at least five facial emotions are universal (every culture recognizes them). One of which was the smile, and probably the easiest to recognize. Minding rare cases of autism and feral children, infants respond not only to a human smile but images that resemble a human face smiling. So is this the ultimate timeless universal icon?

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