According to current research, if you were to make and hold the facial expression associated with surprise for about 10 seconds, your body would ____.
A) not undergo any change in physiological arousal at all
B) begin to produce arousal that would be identical to arousal produced in response to other types of facial expressions and their accompanying emotions
C) begin to produce arousal that would be unique to that emotion
D) begin to produce arousal that would be different from the arousal experienced in response to a frown, but not different from the arousal experienced in response to a smile

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Research suggests that holding a facial expression associated with a specific emotion, such as surprise, can actually produce physiological responses unique to that emotion. This means that if someone were to hold a surprise expression for about 10 seconds, their body would produce arousal that is specific to the surprise emotion, rather than the generic arousal produced by other facial expressions.

According to Current Research, If You Were to Make and Hold