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...reader become a lie-catcher. It begins with a cursory examination of behavioral, facial, and bodily clues about deceit. For instance, when facial or bodily expressions do not match up with a person’s words, it’s highly likely that said person is lying. Ekman also explains the idea behind “leakage,” a physiognomic cousin of the microexpression, rendered aptly in the examples of a graduate student subliminally flipping off her professor during a particularly harsh performance evaluation. The author then moves to an evaluation of polygraphs as instruments of interrogation...
...physiology. We have known for many years that people all over the world, even those from remote cultures, use the same facial expressions to convey basic emotions like grief or joy. Charles Darwin noted this phenomenon in the 19th century, and Matsumoto's mentor, a famous psychologist named Paul Ekman who traveled the globe in the 1960s, proved that both isolated tribesmen and urban Westerners identified pictures of facial expressions in the same way. Ekman demonstrated that a frown means unhappiness the world over; wide eyes mean fright or surprise; a wrinkled nose means disgust...
...possibility that your expression could affect your mood was first suggested to me by Marsha Linehan, a University of Washington psychologist who treats suicidal patients. She has found that helping patients modulate their facial expressions - relaxing the face when angry, for instance - can help them control their emotions. Ekman and his colleagues provided evidence of this in a Science paper back in 1983. They found that those instructed to produce certain facial movements showed the same physiological responses as those asked to recall a highly emotional experience. Later, a study showed that if you hold a pencil between your teeth...
...face in about 1/30th of a second. So it's very, very rapid," says Dr. Maureen O'Sullivan, who trains U.S. airport security officers in recognizing them in order to spot potential troublemakers, including terrorists. Since the summer of 2007, O'Sullivan, working with micro-expression detection pioneer Paul Ekman, has helped train thousands of airport security officers in techniques to detect the kind of involuntary physical and physiological actions - both body language and verbal expressions - that people exhibit when trying to hide something...
...best poker players say tics and flutters in an opponent's face--the so-called poker tells--can telegraph when a player is bluffing. Scientists agree that the face tells tales we may wish it didn't. San Francisco psychologist Paul Ekman has codified 46 facial movements into more than 10,000 microexpressions in what he calls the Facial Action Coding System (FACS). He and Frank, who helped devise the catalog, say they can detect deception with 76% accuracy. According to Ekman, thousands of people have been trained in FACS, including Transportation Security Administration personnel. While similar behavioral screening...