ABSTRACT
Unipolar shape-flow factors in the faces of each individual convey feelings of approach or withdrawal. What other affects do you see?
In bipolar shape flow the body grows symmetrica lly, increasing exposure to the surro unding environment, and shrinks , diminish ing ex pos ure . Thro ugh the symmetrica l process of growi ng and shrinking, bipolar shape flow gives the body stability. These biolog ica l
rhythms (e.g., breathing rhythms) of growing and shrinking provide the prototype for growing unilaterally as an approach to attractive stimuli and shrinking unilaterally as a withdrawal from noxious stimuli (see also Mahler, 1971 in Kestenberg, 1975V Asymmetrical growing and shrinking, termed unipolar shape flow (towards one direction or pole), provides the foundation for mobility.
