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A study of sighted Olympic and blind Paralympic athletes found that competitors from both groups showed the same facial expressions when they won (joy, happiness) and when they lost (sadness, anger). Why do results like this suggest that emotions are innate (i.e., we are born with them)

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Answer:Facial Expressions in Congenitally Blind

Explanation: In the same emotionally evocative situation blind individual are same as sighted individual. All of us both sighted and blind emotion comes from our gene,and all of us regardless if blind or sight,culture or gender have the ability to express our behavior. Researchers photographed their facial expressions of both the blind athletes and the sighted athletes during and after the Olympic,the researcher discover from the photos that both the sighted and blind athletes produces the same behavior of anger,smile,sadness,surprise,disguise.

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