Paul Ekman

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https://smallwhale.org/articles/paul-ekman

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1. When was Paul Ekman born?February 15, 1934
2. What is the career?Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of California, San Francisco
3. What is the related topics?Psychology of emotion, non-verbal communication, microexpressions, cross-cultural psychology, deception detection
4. Who is Paul Ekman?Paul Ekman is a psychologist who studied how our faces show feelings. He showed that many facial expressions are the same everywhere in the world.
5. What did Paul Ekman find about facial expressions?He discovered that people in different cultures all recognize the same basic emotions—happiness, sadness, anger, fear, surprise, disgust, and contempt—through their faces.

Non-verbal Communication: The transmission of messages or signals through a non-verbal platform such as eye contact, facial expressions, gestures, and the distance between individuals.
Universal Facial Expressions: Facial expressions for basic emotions (e.g., happiness, sadness, anger) that are recognized and displayed similarly across diverse cultures and societies.
Facial Action Coding System (FACS): A comprehensive system for describing all visually discernible facial movements, based on an anatomical analysis of the face.
Microexpressions: Brief, involuntary facial expressions that occur when a person is trying to conceal or deny a feeling.