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  Paul Ekman on The Paula Gordon Show
Paul Ekman has led the way in grappling with the deeply human subject of the expression and physiology of emotion, both of which he has studied for more than 40 years.
Ekman now distinguishes at least 15 different kinds of enjoyment, as different from each other, he says, as fear is from anger.
Paul Ekman has done the world a great service in demonstrating the oneness of humankind which Charles Darwin first affirmed more than 130 years ago, and by giving us tools with which to translate that knowledge into action.
www.paulagordon.com /shows/ekman   (1213 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Life | Can you guess how I'm feeling?
Paul Ekman says it's easy to spot the most fleeting of emotions on someone's face - whether they want you to or not.
Paul Ekman looks relaxed in the cool office of his London publisher, eating grapes, drinking mineral water and telling me how much fun it is pretending to stab children.
Putting aside Ekman's mastery of office diplomacy, he does have top tips to work out what is going on in the head of the person you are speaking to or watching.
www.guardian.co.uk /life/interview/story/0,12982,994742,00.html   (1144 words)

  
 Lifeboat Foundation Bios: Dr. Paul Ekman
Dr. Paul Ekman, is a pioneer in the study of emotions and facial expressions, and is professor emeritus of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California Medical School (UCSF) where he was active for 32 years.
Contrary to the belief of some anthropologists at the time including Margaret Mead, Paul found that at least some facial expressions and their corresponding emotions are not culturally determined, but appear to be universal to human culture and thus presumably biological in origin, as Charles Darwin had once theorized.
Paul's many honors have included the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award of the American Psychological Association in 1991, and an honorary doctor of humane letters from the University of Chicago in 1994.
lifeboat.com /ex/bios.paul   (612 words)

  
 Paul Ekman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Paul Ekman (born 1934) is a psychologist and has been a pioneer in the study of emotions and facial expressions.
Ekman was born in 1934 in Washington, DC, and grew up in Newark, New Jersey, Washington, Oregon, and Southern California.
Ekman's carefully conducted experiments were a model of elegance for other psychologists and, in part, led to him being designated one of the 100 most important psychologists of the twentieth century by the American Psychological Association.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paul_Ekman   (315 words)

  
 The Inner and Outer Meanings of Facial Expressions
Ekman, Friesen, and Ancoli (1980) found, as they predicted, that the specific smiling action of zygomatic major was related to subjects' self-reports of happiness, but other smiling actions were not.
Ekman noted that the expressions which were judged as more intense on the left were not genuine emotional expressions, but rather were deliberately produced movements, carefully directed by the photographer, who gave instructions to move particular muscles, such as "raise your upper lip." Sackeim et al.
Ekman, Roper, and Hager (1980) noted that when people are asked to pose an emotion or to imitate an expression, they could use at least two methods to solve the problem.
face-and-emotion.com /dataface/misctext/inner_outer.html   (8439 words)

  
 Ekman
Ekman, P. The face of man: expressions of universal emotions in a New Guinea village New York: Garland STPM Press.
Ekman, P. & Fridlund, A. Assessment of facial behavior in affective disorders.
Ekman, P. & Friesen, W. A new pan cultural facial expression of emotion.
mambo.ucsc.edu /psl/ekman.html   (611 words)

  
 gladwell dot com - the naked face
Paul Ekman got his start in the face-reading business because of a man named Silvan Tomkins, and Silvan Tomkins may have been the best face reader there ever was.
Ekman was still working on the problem of whether human facial expressions were universal, and the Gajdusek film was invaluable.
Ekman calls that kind of fleeting look a "microexpression," and one cannot understand why John Yarbrough did what he did on that night in South Central without also understanding the particular role and significance of microexpressions.
www.gladwell.com /2002/2002_08_05_a_face.htm   (7710 words)

  
 Emotions Revealed
Ekman’s more than 40 years of research have led him to the conclusion that emotions, and accompanying facial expressions, are largely universal.
Ekman and his collaborator Wallace Friesen created a coding system that identifies each of the nearly 80 muscles of the face, as well as the thousands of combinations of muscles associated with various emotions.
In Emotions Revealed, Ekman, who is a professor of psychology at the University of California at San Francisco, beautifully interweaves his research with anecdotes, recommendations, and the behind-the-scenes flubs, accidental discoveries and debates that never make their way into published articles but that are the essence of scientific inquiry.
www.bobbrooke.com /bookreview32.htm   (543 words)

  
 APS Observer - Psychology All-Stars with Paul Ekman
Ekman is a professor of psychology in the department of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco Medical School, and is renowned for his work on emotion and interpersonal deception.
PAUL EKMAN: I was studying Freud in a course on rhetoric and was very intrigued.
EKMAN: I applied to be a psychotherapist and everyone turned me down with the exception of Adelphi University, who at that time wanted to train clinicians to practice.
www.psychologicalscience.org /observer/getArticle.cfm?id=1543   (708 words)

  
 Paul Ekman: Emotions and Secrets
Paul Ekman, Ph.D. is Professor (Emeritus) of Psychology at University of California, San Francisco.
, Ekman found that most facial expressions and their corresponding emotions are not culturally determined, but are presumably biological in origin, as Charles Darwin had once theorized.
Ekman also reported facial "microexpressions" that he claimed could be used to reliably detect lying, in an effort called the Diogenes Project.
www.psicolinea.it /e_s/e_paul_ekman.htm   (820 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Face expert's ability to see deception has him in demand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Ekman became a psychologist to help people with emotional problems after his own mother's suicide when he was 14.
Ekman found that the natives recognized the seven emotions with clear facial signals, leading to his belief that facial expressions are connected to emotions.
Ekman responds that 21 published studies (three are his) showed that "independent of the context, expressions have a highly agreed-upon meaning."
www.usatoday.com /news/health/2005-07-20-face-expert_x.htm?csp=34   (783 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: What the Face Reveals : Basic and Applied Studies of Spontaneous Expression Using the Facial Action Coding ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Ekman, W.V. Friesen, and R. Simons: Is the Startle Reaction an Emotion?
M.G. Frank, P. Ekman, and W.V. Friesen: Behavioral Markers and Recognizability of the Smile of Enjoyment 11.
Ekman, D. Matsumoto, and W.V. Friesen: Facial Expressions in Affective Disorders 16.
www.amazon.ca /What-Face-Reveals-Paul-Ekman/dp/0195104471   (1216 words)

  
 City Arts & Lectures
Paul Ekman is a world-renowned expert in emotional research and nonverbal communication, noted particularly for his studies on emotional expression and the corresponding physiological activity of the face.
Paul Ekman is Professor of Psychology at the University of California at San Francisco, a position which he has held since 1972.
Ekman has received many honors, most notably the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award of the American Psychological Association in 1991, and an honorary doctor of humane letters from the University of Chicago in 1994.
www.cityarts.net /n.ekman.html   (180 words)

  
 Emotions Revealed, by Paul Ekman
Drawing on Ekman's fieldwork investigating universal facial expressions in the United States, Japan, Brazil, and Papua New Guinea; his analysis of the prognosis of hospital patients based on their emotional attitude; and dozens of other studies, Emotions Revealed explores the evolutionary and behavioral essences of anger, sadness, fear, surprise, disgust, contempt, and happiness.
Ekman then takes us on a visual tour of each emotion's unique signals, exploring some of the most subtle and easy-to-miss expressions that can signal when a person is just beginning to feel an emotion or may be trying to suppress it.
"Paul Ekman is the master of emotional expression, and this is a masterful account of his field.
www.henryholt.com /holt/emotionsrevealed.htm   (720 words)

  
 The lie detective / S.F psychologist has made a science of reading facial expressions
This week, Ekman, who at 68 is preternaturally spry and unfailingly inquisitive, with the intense gaze of someone who's made a business of studying faces, is in Florida to share his expertise with a group of the nation's leading criminal profilers.
Ekman was becoming convinced that unlike hand gestures, which he had studied earlier and concluded are indeed culturally influenced, expressions may in fact be innate.
Ekman's decades of face time have also provided him with an endless source of amusement, a way to pass time in airports and fodder for dinner table conversations.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/09/16/MN241376.DTL&type=science   (1568 words)

  
 Association for Psychological Science: William James Fellow Award - Paul Ekman
Paul Ekman has developed methods that allow psychologists to read emotion from the human face.
Ekman's research has made it possible for the study of emotion to return to a central place in psychology, and his books have made finding in the field of emotion available to a wide audience.
Ekman has also been instrumental in the field of interpersonal deception.
www.psychologicalscience.org /awards/james/citations/ekman.cfm   (132 words)

  
 Mid Frame
Ekman was born in 1934 in New Jersey.
Ekman's research interest in emotions, interpersonal styles, facial expression, and body movement were rewarded when, in 1955, Ekman was awarded an National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) predoctoral research fellowship from 1955 to 1957.
Paul Ekman served as the chief psychologist at Fort Dix, New Jersey.
www.colostate.edu /Depts/Speech/rccs/theory33.htm   (1054 words)

  
 Jack Parsons reviews Telling Lies. Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage by Paul Ekman
To those readers who would have preferred to get straight down what the Ekman book is about I apologise for going on at some length about my own views and writings around the subject.
A third is the ‘Othello error’, signifying the danger of relying on a higher pitch in the voice of someone denying dishonesty as evidence of guilt.
Ekman agrees that while this symptom can indicate guilt, it can also stem from fear.
human-nature.com /nibbs/02/ekman.html   (2051 words)

  
 Biography: Paul Ekman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Paul Ekman, Ph.D is Professor of Psychology at the
Ekman is a world-renowned expert in emotional research and nonverbal communication, particularly for his studies on emotional expression and the corresponding physiological activity of the face.
Ekman, Paul and Rosenberg, E. What the Face Reveals: Basic and Applied Studies of Spontaneous Expression Using the Facial Action Coding System.
www.meta-library.net /bio/ekman-body.html   (183 words)

  
 Paul Ekman (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
'''Paul Ekman''' (born 1934) was born in Washington, DC and grew up in Newark, New Jersey, Washington, Oregon, and southern California.
He has been a pioneer in the study of emotions and facial expressions, and is currently professor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California Medical School.
Contrary to the belief of some anthropologists at the time including Margaret Mead, Ekman found that at least some facial expressions and their corresponding emotions are not culturally determined, but appear to universal to human culture and thus presumably biological in origin, as Charles Darwin had once theorized.
paul-ekman.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888   (194 words)

  
 PsyBC: Online Continuing Education
Paul Ekmans work has contributed significantly to improve my clinical skills and I recommend this series of papers as well as his CDs (See CDs) to all therapists regardless of their therapeutic modality.
Paul Ekman has devoted his career to understanding and clarifying the complex nature of human emotions and, especially, how they are communicated through their display on our faces.
Ekman has developed two CDs that train and sensitize you to pick up these overlooked or unrecognized expressions of emotions.
www.psybc.com /paper_info.php?paper_id=75   (643 words)

  
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Ekman's research is of interest to poker students.
Ekman differentiates between 'subtle expressions', which last up to 1/3 of a second, and 'microexpressions', which typically last for abotu 1/25th of a second.
I expect Dr. Ekman is already looking seriously at poker players in his research.
www.pokerfyi.com /articles/4/13.aspx   (1268 words)

  
 Paul Ekman. Ph.D : Full Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Ekman, P. Expressive behavior and the recovery of a traumatic memory: Comments on the videotapes of Jane Doe.
Ekman, P. (1994) Strong evidence for universals in facia l expressions: A reply to Russell’s mistaken critique.
Ekman, P., Krasner, L., & Ullman, L. The interaction of set and awareness as determinants of response to verbal conditioning.
paulekman.com /full_bibliography.php   (2894 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life: Books: Paul ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Ekman addresses in detail the "cascade of changes" that occur physiologically in an individual in the throes of one of five salient emotional categories (sadness, anger, fear, disgust and enjoyment).
Paul Ekman rescued Darwin's contribution with his own research in primitive areas of the world.
Paul Ekman has become something of an academic celebrity due to the timeliness and value of his academic interest in the world of emotion and expression.
www.amazon.com /Emotions-Revealed-Recognizing-Communication-Emotional/dp/0805072756   (3513 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Paul Ekman - Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve ...
Paul Eckman wrote Emotions Revealed after studying human behavior for 20+ years.
Paul Eckman is the creator of a lot of the science he teaches.
He tells the story, shares discoveries with us along the way, gives us good examples to learn from, and I think gives us good reason to be conscious of our behavior, something that will perhaps dawn on you after you've nailed down a few friend and foe smiles and scowls as you read.
www.epinions.com /content_270246710916   (563 words)

  
 Ekman,Paul Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
Ekman {is} a pioneer in emotions research and nonverbal communication.
Ekman explains what motivates children to lie, how lying changes at different ages, and how a child prepares a lie.
In Darwin and Facial Expression, Paul Ekman and a cast of other notable scholars and scientists reconsider central concepts and key sources of information in Darwin's work on emotional expression.
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Ekman,Paul   (771 words)

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