Unmasking the Face

By Paul Ekman, Wallace V. Friesen,

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

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Using scores of photographs of faces that reflect the emotions of surprise, fear, disgust, anger, happiness, and sadness, the authors of UNMASKING THE FACE explain how to identify correctly these basic emotions and how to tell when people try to mask, simulate, or neutralize them. In addition, it features several…

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1 author picked Unmasking the Face as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Paul Ekman is a well known researcher of human behavior and facial expressions and indicators of lying. He’s written several books that many serious students of behavior have read, and this is a good one to start with. He delves into the meaning of various facial expressions, and also explains how research shows the universal, cross-cultural nature of our underlying emotions and how those show up in our faces.

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