# @science on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2026-03-18T01:00:18.000+00:00
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“Spontaneously produced facial expressions of emotion of both congenitally and non-congenitally blind individuals are the same as for sighted individuals in the same emotionally evocative situations,” said study author David Matsumoto, Ph.D., of San Francisco State University. “We also see that blind people manage their expressions in social situations the same way sighted people do.”⁠
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Our emotional expressions probably come from our genes, and all of us, regardless of gender or culture, are capable of this behavior, says Matsumoto. “Blind people, and especially those born blind, could not have possibly learned to produce those exact facial configurations from modeling the expressions of others.”⁠
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#blind #facialexpressions #emotion #biology #evolution #science

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