He was ranked 59th out of the 100 most cited psychologists of the twentieth century.[2] Ekman conducted seminal research on the specic biological correlates of specic emotions, demonstrating the universality and discreteness of emotions in a Darwinian approach.[3][4]
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man Group, develops and oers online emotional skillsbuilding programs such as the Micro Expression Training Tool, oers workshops, supports researchers in our
eld, and builds online community around these topics.
They do not take individual cases.[16] Also, the PEG offers a micro expression and subtle expression training tool
for sale on their website.[17] However, it may be possible to learn to spot micro expressions by quickly ipping
through photos of facial expressions. The Paul Ekman
Group is currently working on an online interactive tool
called Mapping your Anger Prole to allow couples to
analyze their emotional prole. An emotional prole will
examine how quickly one is angered, in addition to how
the person experiences emotions such as anger, fear, disgust and anguish.[18] They are also developing a tool titled, Responding Eectively to Emotional Expressions
(RE3).[15]
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sity of California Medical School, for his clinical internship partly because Jurgen Ruesch and Weldon Kees had
recently published a book called Nonverbal Communication (1956).[9][26][27]
Ekman then focused on developing techniques for measuring nonverbal communication. He found that facial
muscular movements that created facial expressions could
be reliably identied through empirical research. He
also found that human beings are capable of making
over 10,000 facial expressions; only 3,000 relevant to
emotion.[28] Psychologist Silvan Tomkins convinced Ekman to extend his studies of nonverbal communication
from body movement to the face, helping him design his
classic cross-cultural emotion recognition studies.[29] Interestingly enough, Tomkins also supervised Carroll Izard
at the same time, fostering a similar interest in emotion
through cross-cultural research.
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Measuring nonverbal communication
expressions. Expressions he found to be universal included those indicating anger, disgust, fear, happiness,
sadness, and surprise. Findings on contempt are less
clear, though there is at least some preliminary evidence that this emotion and its expression are universally recognized.[30] Working with his long-time friend
Wallace V. Friesen, Ekman demonstrated that the ndings extended to preliterate Fore tribesmen in Papua
New Guinea, whose members could not have learned the
meaning of expressions from exposure to media depictions of emotion.[31] Ekman and Friesen then demonstrated that certain emotions were exhibited with very
specic display rules, culture-specic prescriptions about
who can show which emotions to whom and when. These
display rules could explain how cultural dierences may
conceal the universal eect of expression.[32]
In the 1990s, Ekman proposed an expanded list of basic
emotions, including a range of positive and negative emotions that are not all encoded in facial muscles.[33] The
newly included emotions are: Amusement, Contempt,
Contentment, Embarrassment, Excitement, Guilt, Pride
in achievement, Relief, Satisfaction, Sensory pleasure,
and Shame.[33]
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Psychometric tests for studying emo- These naturals are also known as Truth Wizards, or
wizards of deception detection from demeanor.[39]
tion
Ekmans famous test of emotion recognition was the Pictures of Facial Aect (POFA) stimulus set published in
1976. Consisting of 110 black and white images of Caucasian actors portraying the six universal emotions plus
neutral expressions, the POFA has been used to study
emotion recognition rates in normal and psychiatric populations around the world. Ekman used these stimuli in
his original cross-cultural research. Many researchers
favor the POFA because these photographs have been
rated by large normative groups in dierent cultures.
In response to critics, however, Ekman eventually released a more culturally diverse set of stimuli called the
Japanese and Caucasian Facial Expressions of Emotion
(JACFEE).[34]
By 1978, Ekman and Friesen had nalized and developed
the Facial Action Coding System (FACS) to taxonomize
every human facial expression. FACS is an anatomically
based system for describing all observable facial movement for every emotion. Each observable component of
facial movement is called an action unit or AU and all facial expressions can be decomposed into their constituent
core AUs.[35] An update of this tool came in the early
2000s when it was renamed F.A.C.E. (Facial Expression,
Awareness, Compassion, Emotions) and redeveloped as
a tool to learn about identifying and recognizing facial
expressions in the human face.
Other tools have been developed, including the MicroExpressions Training Tool (METT), which can help individuals identify more subtle emotional expressions that occur when people try to suppress their emotions. Application of this tool includes helping people with Aspergers
or autism recognize emotional expressions in their everyday interactions. The Subtle Expression Training Tool
(SETT) teaches recognition of very small, micro signs of
emotion. These are very tiny expressions, sometimes registering in only part of the face, or when the expression is
shown across the entire face, but is very small. Subtle expressions occur for many reasons, for example, the emotion experienced may be very slight or the emotion may
be just beginning. METT and SETT have been shown to
increase accuracy in evaluating truthfulness.
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6 SEE ALSO
tion provided some diculty for some of the earlier universal.[47] Ekman argued that there has been no quantheoretical conceptualizations of experiencing emo- titative data to support the claim that emotions are culture
tions.
specic. In his 1993 discussion of the topic, Ekman states
that there is no instance in which 70% or more of one cul Considering emotions as families: Ekman & tural group select one of the six universal emotions while
Friesen (1978) found not one expression for each another culture group labels the same expression as anemotion, but a variety of related but visually dif- other universal emotion.[42]
ferent expressions. For example, the authors reported 60 variations of the anger expression which
share core congurational properties and distinguish 5 Publications
themselves clearly from the families of fearful expressions, disgust expressions, and so on. Variations
Emotional Awareness: Overcoming the Obstacles
within a family likely reect the intensity of the emoto Psychological Balance and Compassion (Times
tion, how the emotion is controlled, whether it is
Books, 2008) ISBN 0-8050-8712-5
simulated or spontaneous, and the specics of the
event that provoked the emotion.
Unmasking the Face ISBN 1-883536-36-7
Criticisms
Most credibility-assessment researchers agree that people are unable to visually detect lies.[43] The application of part of Ekmans work to airport security via
the Transportation Security Administration's Screening Passengers by Observation Techniques (SPOT) program has been criticized for not having been put through
controlled scientic tests.[43] A 2007 report on SPOT
stated that simply put, people (including professional liecatchers with extensive experience of assessing veracity)
would achieve similar hit rates if they ipped a coin.[44]
Since controlled scientic tests typically involve people
playing the part of terrorists, Ekman says those people are
unlikely to have the same emotions as actual terrorists.[43]
The methodology used by Ekman and O'Sullivan in their
recent work on Truth wizards has also received criticism
on the basis of validation.[45]
Other criticisms of Ekmans work are based on experimental and naturalistic studies by several other emotion
psychologists that did not nd evidence in support of Ekmans proposed taxonomy of discrete emotions and discrete facial expression.[46]
Ekman received hostility from some anthropologists at
meetings of the American Psychological Association and
the American Anthropological Association from 1967 to
1969. He recounted that, as he was reporting his ndings
on universality of expression, one anthropologist tried to
stop him from nishing by shouting that his ideas were
fascist. He compares this to another incident when he
was accused of being racist by an activist for claiming
that Black expressions are not dierent from White expressions. In 1975, Margaret Mead, an anthropologist,
wrote against Ekman for doing improper anthropology,
and for disagreeing with Ray Birdwhistell's claim opposing universality. Ekman wrote that, while many people
agreed with Birdwhistell then, most came to accept his
own ndings over the next decade.[14] However, some anthropologists continued to suggest that emotions are not
Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life
(Times Books, 2003) ISBN 0-8050-7516-X
Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage (W. W. Norton & Company,
1985) ISBN 0-393-32188-6
What the Face Reveals (with Rosenberg, E. L., Oxford University Press, 1998) ISBN 0-19-510446-3
The Nature of Emotion: Fundamental Questions
(with R. Davidson, Oxford University Press, 1994)
ISBN 0-19-508944-8
Darwin and Facial Expression: A Century of Research in Review ISBN 0-12-236750-2
Facial Action Coding System/Investigators ISBN
99936-26-61-9
Why Kids Lie: How Parents Can Encourage Truthfulness (Penguin, 1991) ISBN 0-14-014322-X
Handbook of Methods in Nonverbal Behavior Research ISBN 0-521-28072-9
Face of Man ISBN 0-8240-7130-1
Emotion in the Human Face ISBN 0-08-016643-1
Handbook of Cognition and Emotion (Sussex, UK
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 1999)
6 See also
Animal communication
Body language
Emotions and Culture
Emotion classication
Facial Action Coding System
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Microexpression
Nonverbal communication
Origin of language
Origin of speech
Lie to Me (TV series)
Wizards Project
References
[22] Dacher Keltner & Paul Ekman (2015-07-03). The Science of 'Inside Out'". The New York Times. Retrieved
2015-09-05.
[23] The 2009 TIME 100: Paul Ekman, Scientists & Thinkers.
Time. April 30, 2009.
[7] http://myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/login?url=http:
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docview/229138171?accountid=14771/
[26] Nonverbal Communication: Notes on the Visual Perception of Human Relations - Jurgen Ruesch, Weldon Kees Google Boeken. Books.google.com. Retrieved 2014-0303.
[30] Matsumoto, David (1992) More evidence for the universality of a contempt expression. Motivation and Emotion.
Springer Netherlands. Volume 16, Number 4 / December, 1992
[31] Ekman, P.; Friesen, W.V. (1971). Constants across
cultures in the face and emotion. (PDF). Journal
of Personality and Social Psychology 17: 124129.
doi:10.1037/h0030377. PMID 5542557.
[32] Ekman, Paul (1989). The argument and evidence about
universals in facial expressions of emotion. In H. Wagner & A Manstead. Handbook of social psychophysiology.
Chichester, England: Wiley. pp. 143164.
[33] Ekman, Paul (1999), Basic Emotions, in Dalgleish, T;
Power, M, Handbook of Cognition and Emotion (PDF),
Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons
EXTERNAL LINKS
8 External links
Interview
Ocial site
Complete bibliography
A biography from Lifeboat Foundation site
Video of Freitas-Magalhaess 2008 Ceremony of
Doctorate Honoris Causa to Paul Ekman, The Ekman Code or the Eulogy to the Human Face
The Naked Face, Gladwell.com
Interview (History Channel transcript)
Interview (Financial Times)
[34] Ekman, P.; Matsumoto, D. Japanese and Caucasian facial expressions of emotion and neutral faces..
[36] Book: Why Kids Lie: How Parents Can Encourage Truthfulness
[37] Ekman, P., 1996: Why don't we catch liars
[38] Camilleri, J., Truth Wizard knows when you've been lying, Chicago Sun-Times, January 21, 2009
[39] NPR: The Face Never Lies.
[40] Meet the New Interrogators: Lockheed Martin by
Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch report, November 4th,
2005.
[41] The lie detective: San Francisco psychologist has made
a science of reading facial expressions by Julian Guthrie,
San Francisco Chronicle, Monday, September 16, 2002.
[42] Ekman, Paul (1993). Facial Expression and Emotion.
American Psychologist 48 (4): 384392.
doi:10.1037/0003-066X.48.4.384. PMID 8512154.
[43] Sharon Weinberger. Airport security: Intent to deceive?
: Nature News. Nature.com. Retrieved 2014-03-03.
[44] Hontz, C. R., Hartwig, M., Kleinman, S. M. & Meissner,
C. A. Credibility Assessment at Portals, Portals Committee Report (2009).
[45] Bond, Charles F & Uysal, Ahmet. (2007). On lie detection wizards. Law and human behavior, 31.
[46] Russel and Fernandez-Dols (1997). The Psychology of
Facial Expression . Cambridge University Press.
[47] Lutz, C.; White, G.M. (1986). The anthropology of
emotions.. Annual Review of Anthropology 15: 405
436. doi:10.1146/annurev.anthro.15.1.405.
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