Unmasking the Face
A guide to recognizing emotions from facial expressions
Paul Ekman and Wallace V. Friesen
Paul Ekman
Paul Ekman’s meeting with the Dali Lama in 2012 was recorded and segmented into webisodes for the video series Developing Global Compassion. In 2015 he served as a scientific advisor on the widely popular movie Inside Out focusing on emotions and family dynamics. Dr. Ekman continues to write on a range of topics from his early studies, the experience of growing old, global compassion, current events, as well as personal reflection.
Unmasking the Face
A guide to recognizing emotions from facial expressions
Paul Ekman and Wallace V. Friesen
Ekman and Friesen’s breakthrough research on the facial expression of emotion is richly illustrated with photographs showing emotions of 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. It features several practical exercises that help actors, teachers, salesmen, counselors, nurses, law-enforcement personnel and physicians—and everyone else who deals with people—to become adept, perceptive readers of the facial expressions of emotions.
