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The present study is part of a lecture on non-verbal communication, given to 96 students of the 2 nd year of the Degree on Criminology and Security at the University of Cadiz in October 2012. Our aim was that the students were aware of the importance of interpret- ing emotions properly in jobs related to criminology and security, from data gathered from different sources, both verbal and nonverbal infor- mation. For this purpose, we used a previous study (Anta, 2010), from which we took 11 pictures of prison- ers from Nanclares de la Oca (Alava, Spain), in which they showed differ- ent emotions, like anger, scorn, surprise, sadness and happiness. Our sample needed to identify the emotions expressed in the photo- graphs by means of the observation of their facial expressions. The results prove that it is fundamental to combine the data provided by facial expressions together with other information coming from verbal language, other forms of nonverbal communication and pragmatic information given, for example, by the sender and the context where communication takes |
