Unmasking the Face: A Guide to Recognizing Emotions from Facial Expressions

by Paul Ekman, Wallace V. Friesen

Overview

Ekman and Friesen's breakthrough research on the facial expression of emotion is richly illustrated with photographs depicting surprise, fear, disgust, anger, happiness and sadness. The authors explain how to identify these basic emotions correctly and how to tell when people try to mask, simulate or neutralize them. The book features several practical exercises that can help actors, teachers, salesmen, counselors, nurses, law-enforcement personnel and physicians - and everyone else who deals with people - become adept, perceptive readers of the facial expressions of emotions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781948013147
Publisher:	Malor Books
Publication date:	10/15/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	212
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Paul Ekman is Professor Emeritus of Psychology in the department of psychiatry at the University of California Medical School, San Francisco, and the author of 13 books. He is a frequent consultant on emotional expression to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, Central Intelligence Agency and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, as well as to animation studios such as Pixar and Industrial Light and Magic.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	xi
1	Introduction	1
2	Why mistakes are made in understanding facial expressions of emotion	10
3	Research on facial expressions of emotion	21
4	Surprise	34
5	Fear	47
6	Disgust	66
7	Anger	78
8	Happiness	99
9	Sadness	114
10	Practice faces	129
11	Facial deceit	135
12	Checking your own facial expression	154
13	Conclusion	167
Appendix I	The facial blueprint photographs	169
Appendix II	Practice photos for chapter 10	173
Appendix III	Log and judge sheets	203
	Index	208