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Are facial expressions universal or culturally specific?

A look at cultural expressions in public and private

Excerpts taken from Dr. Paul Ekman’s scientific autobiography, Nonverbal Messages: Cracking the Code (pp. 70-74) January 22, 2018 Display Rules As I was preparing to make my second trip to New Guinea, …

Psychologist Paul Ekman: Getting to Know the Man Behind the Success

An Intimate Paul Ekman Interview

December 26, 2018 The world knows Dr. Ekman as a celebrated research psychologist, a best-selling author, a sought-after scientific advisor to Hollywood, and even a “brother” to the Dalai Lama. …

Life as Our Ancestors Lived It

Reflections on Life in New Guinea

January 11, 2017 Finding the Universal In most of the time human beings have lived on Earth, it was in circumstances very different from those we encounter now. I learned …

“Nonverbal Messages: Cracking the Code”

Dr. Ekman's scientific autobiography now available

Excerpt taken from Introduction (pp. ix – xiv) November 1, 2016 “What motivated me to spend fifty years investigating facial expressions, emotions and deception? Why these topics, which had been …

Are facial expressions universal or culturally specific?

A look at cultural expressions in public and private

Are facial expressions universal or culturally specific?

A look at cultural expressions in public and private

Psychologist Paul Ekman: Getting to Know the Man Behind the Success

An Intimate Paul Ekman Interview

Psychologist Paul Ekman: Getting to Know the Man Behind the Success

An Intimate Paul Ekman Interview

Life as Our Ancestors Lived It

Reflections on Life in New Guinea

Life as Our Ancestors Lived It

Reflections on Life in New Guinea

“Nonverbal Messages: Cracking the Code”

Dr. Ekman's scientific autobiography now available

“Nonverbal Messages: Cracking the Code”

Dr. Ekman's scientific autobiography now available

Increase your emotional awareness and detect deception

Dr. Ekman's Blog

Managing Emotional Triggers

6 Factors Influencing How Well We Can Reduce the Power of an Emotional Trigger

A Brief Intellectual History of the Universality of Emotional Expressions

History of emotions research

Become Versed in Reading Faces

How to read the posturing and poker faces commonly seen when doing business