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Language Log 2025-09-23
Summary:
A couple of decades ago, I reviewed the argument between Paul Ekman and Margaret Meade about whether facial expressions are universal or socially constructed: "Political correctness, biology and culture", 10/31/2006 "The Cabinet of Dr. Birdwhistell", 11/2/2006 Ekman won that argument, at least as judged by most of subsequent intellectual history — though not everyone is […]