Carroll Ellis Izard b. 1923
Carroll Izard conducted developmental and cross-cultural
research on the activation, expression, experience, and function of emotion.
The relevance of emotions to our daily lives was Izard’s focus and he argued
that if you had an emotion, on some level you produced its expression. Izard
studied infants tested his Emotions Course for Young Children, stating that,
from 10 weeks of age, infants are capable of several basic emotions of
interest. He also undertook empirical studies into the facial feedback hypothesis
according to which emotions which have different functions also cause facial
expressions which in turn provide us with cues about what emotion a person is
feeling.
Read The Face of Emotion (1971) New York:
Appleton-Century-Crofts.
