Paul EkmanRecensioni

Professor Ekman is attempting several things with one book: an introduction to the evolutionary basis for emotions and emotional expression; a definition for "emotion"; identification of the indivisible, fundemental emotions and a primer in how to read the emotions of others. Somehow, despite this book's short length (especially given that it is liberally peppered with photographs), he achieves all of these things. Emotions Revealed is fascinating and useful.

More on whether lie detectors may or may not be useful than lying in general. It was also updated a couple times by adding chapters at the end apparently which skews the content toward not believing detecting lies is possible. Towards the present, he's getting better at it.

Übrigens die zwei Bücher von Ekman sind spitze!!!!!!!! ~ 2012

Übrigens die zwei Bücher von Ekman sind spitze!!!!!!!! ~ 2012

Intriguing topic. Can you spell t-e-d-i-o-u-s? His discussions of the misuse of the lie detector are good and insights into diplomatic/international relations lying are fascinating, but too much detail on exact facial muscles and shatteringly complicated terminology. And I like science.

Bei Sätzen des Buches, nicht wenigen, während des Lesens derselben, was durchaus nicht ausschließlich an ihrer durch den Autor gegebenen Länge, sondern auch an der Übersetzung liegen mag, ist es nicht ausgeschlossen, dass einem u. U. mittendrin entfallen könnte, wie und warum sie überhaupt begonnen haben, sodass die Notwendigkeit kausal bewirkt wird, eine oder mehrere Wiederholungen zum Zwecke der intensivierten und adäquaten Sinnerfassung durchzuführen.
Auch inhaltlich hat das Buch einige Längen, aber es vermittelt notwendige Grundlagen, die anderen Büchern über Körpersprache fehlen. Vor allem die Methoden zur Vermeidung von Fehlschlüssen und vorschnellen Urteilen bei der Interpretation sind essentiell. Man hätte sich nur etwas mehr Prägnanz gewünscht. Die eingewobenen illustrierenden Geschichten über Politiker, Betrüger, Patienten und Krankenpflegeschülerinnen sind zwar für manche sicher interessant, tragen aber nicht viel zum praktisch umsetzbaren Informationsgehalt bei.

Drawing on Darwinism, Paul Ekman (inspiration for the TV series "Lie To Me", for those who remember it) argues that humans possess a limited number of emotions, each of which has a fixed corresponding facial expression. In this book, Ekman identifies six states - anger, fear, happiness, disgust, contempt, sadness - though I believe he expands this in later books.

The most fascinating aspect of his work is his contention that these states are revealed through facial micro-expressions, the identification of which can help us to trace the often unexpressed responses that pass fleetingly across the face. This is all fascinating, but it is something that is also of use to artists, as his exploration of the characteristic forms that emotions take provide useful building blocks for the depiction of facial expression.

Gareth Southwell is a philosopher, writer and illustrator.

> Babelio : https://www.babelio.com/livres/Dalai-Lama-La-voie-des-emotions/718596

> Même s'il reste très spécifique et ne convient pas à une initiation à l'étude des émotions, les échanges entre ces deux fabuleux personnages est captivante et instructive.
—Danieljean (Babelio)

> La voie des émotions ? Le chemin à emprunter pour en guérir et les maîtriser
Par Zuihô (Livresbouddhistes.com), le 22 nov. 2018 (Sur Amazon.fr) 5/5

Espero te guste, Violeta

In the current state of worldwide affairs, knowing how people feel is a vital skill. Knowing when people are lying, even more so.

While reading emotions might seem like a straight forward task, it is quite certainly not for most. If such were the case, why is it that so many people fall prey for the lies from politicians & people in power when it’s obvious to others they are lying? Why is most of the populace unable to read lies when a select few can do so at will? Dr. Ekman’s book answers those questions rather poignantly.

Transitioning to a quick sidebar that dovetails with this topic, the highly intriguing and groundbreaking show Lie To Me [2009] brought to the fore the issue of spotting lies to solve crimes when coupled with reading microexpressions in individual’s faces.

What are micro expressions a curious mind might inquire? Excellent question.

Micro expressions are very brief facial expressions lasting only a fraction of a second. They occur when a person is either deliberately or unconsciously concealing a feeling. These emotions have universal signals: happiness, surprise, fear, anger, disgust and sadness.

Along with that, throughout the series, not only did Lie To Me feature still-frames of people acting deceitfully, but the show also began to cover various other aspects of people’s behavior in order to find dishonesty.

And it just so happens that individuals can be taught, or can learn by themselves how to spot these errant behaviors.

In plainspeak, in Lie To Me various methods of psychology were employed in order to ascertain whether or not people were being duplicitous. This is vital because it just so happens that the above show was in large part based on the work of behavioral psychologist Dr. Paul Ekman.

Getting back on track, Unmasking The Face – A Guide To Recognizing Emotions From Facial Expressions by Dr. Paul Ekman is an incredible book that details part of the knowledge that was used within the TV show referenced above.

Unmasking The Face helps individuals be able to pierce of the veil of lies that’s often cast upon them.

In his phenomenal and fascinating book, Dr. Ekman covers some of the tools and data available in order to determine people’s true feelings via their facial expressions.

At its core Ekman gives individuals the facial schematics to enable people to read the emotions referenced above. Along with that, the author also covers many of the psychological reasons why people carry out the actions that they do.

The author also notes why many people make mistakes in reading emotions at certain times.

In cataloguing facial deceit, Ekman also narrows down facial expressions to four reasons: cultural display rules, personal display rules, vocational requirement and the need of the moment. The author then proceeds to expound upon those four reasons at length.

Coupled with that, the three management techniques individuals employ, which are simulating, neutralizing and masking, are also covered in some detail.

Without a doubt, this book is foundational for a robust understanding of reading/understanding people’s behavior at a much more deeper/comprehensive level.

Given all that, the skills in this book should definitely become part of everyone’s repertoire.

Paul Ekman, who is also author of the landmark book Unmasking The Face – A Guide To Recognizing Emotions From Facial Expression, has been at the tip of the spear in regards to the topic of emotions and behavioral psychology.

In Emotions Revealed – Recognizing Faces & Feelings To Improve Communications & Emotional Life, Ekman speaks at length throughout the book about the extensive research he has conducted throughout his life in respect to the emotional behaviour individuals display, and also offers ways of ascertaining whether those individuals are carrying deceit or not.

The book Emotions Revealed couples extremely well with Unmasking The Face because the former provides ample emotional data for reading/understanding individual behavior, while the latter offers dozens of visual examples of these emotions – happiness, surprise, fear, anger, disgust and sadness.

Ekman in Emotions Revealed helps individual glean information in a manner that is reasonable and easy to follow with the photographs used, and the exercises to carry out, which helps individuals seep within the mind of another potential person. This aids individuals in the comprehension of how others would behave in many emotional-charged situations.

The author states in the preface to the second edition that his goal is to ‘help people improve four essential skills’, which are:

First, becoming more consciously aware of when you are becoming emotional, even before you speak or act.
Second, choosing how you behave when you are emotional, so you achieve your goals without damaging other people.
Third, becoming more sensitive to how others are feeling.
Fourth, carefully using the information you acquire about how others are feeling.

Knowing the goals the author had in the beginning of the book, it can be said without equivocation that the author did a trenchant job at fulfilling his goal.

Not only did Ekman provide individuals throughout the book with extensive data that merges with his central goals, but he also carries it out in a clear and direct manner.

This book is indispensable in the field of emotions and behavior and it is an essential tool to understanding how people behave.

This is an excellent book that was both at times slow to read, and enormously fascinating. For me the challenge came as I was very interested in the topic, but would get slowed down by the details (of which there are many). But really, why would you want a general book about emotions. If you're like me, you nt to be able to better understand the emotions in those around us--and that is going to take effort.

It's worth it...

A maelstrom of original and ground-breaking information never seen before it was published some 30 years ago; by the man who "Lie to Me" was based upon. The first three chapters can be dry and redundant but they lay the foundation for what a lie is and what types there are. Chapter 4 gets into the meat of identification and can leave you exhausted after just a few pages; the 3 pages that describe a chosen 18 types of smiles, for example. And the long chapter on polygraphs (which I thought I'd end up merely flipping through) wound up being the most interesting section of the book, with much of it still relevant for today. The real-life historical examples (Hitler/Chamberlain, Watergate figures, murderers, and philanderers)used throughout work much better than the lies and liars he provides from literature (Updike, Shakespeare, and others). A later edition with actual photos of micro-expressions instead of the sparse pencil drawings contained in this edition will prove much more useful. A MUST-HAVE on the shelf of any sideline-psychologist.

I'm obsessed with the Tim Roth show Lie to Me - this is by Pual Ekman, the facial expression researcher on whom the show is based. It's dry, but fascinating!

This book is hard to rate because it is a textbook, a specific niche book, and thus very detailed in a "how to" way, along with lots of explanation about research and theories which frankly made for dull reading. The ideas and the information are fascinating, however. This book is also some 40 years old and has not been updated, so I ran into places where (from other reading) I knew about more research and new applications of the information. So, for me, it was not an enjoyable or exciting read and I did not learn what I had hoped to, but I do feel I have some basic ideas and vocabulary.

Ekman does most of the talking in this conversation between him and the Dalai Lama. Have some compassion & overlook Ekman's neediness, & many fascinating aspects of emotion/religion/meaning are explored.

"EKMAN: I want to raise the technical question of why it is that sitting every day and focusing your attention on your breath going in and out of your nose, why in the world should that help you with your emotions?
"I am accepting the idea that it does.... Each of these meditative exercises have a common theme, which is that you are focusing consciousness on something that in ordinary life we do not need to focus consciousness on.
"When you are a child, you have to learn how to use the fork. Once you learn how to use the fork, you never think about putting the fork into a piece of food and bringing it up to your mouth. No thought at all!.... Breathing we never think about. What we are doing with these meditative practices, such as focusing on the breath, is creating skills that in some sense we do not need. It is very hard to focus attention on our breath because it is automatic. We are not equipped by nature to focus on it: It is unnecessary. But if we learn how to do so, then we are more generally acquiring the ability to monitor automatically mental processes and that means we are building new neural connections for monitoring what occurs without consciousness.
"If you create these new connections, which are unnecessary to breathe, walk, or eat, I postulate that it will allow you to monitor the automatic nature of emotions. If you develop the skill to focus on your breath for longer and longer periods of time, then that very skill that you have developed will benefit your emotions because your emotions are automatic also." Kindle location 1358-1380

From the chapter FACIAL DECEIT

"Four Reasons Why People Control Facial Expressions
"We have coined the phrase DISPLAY RULES to describe what people learn, probably quite early in their lives, about the need to manage the appearance of particular emotions in particular situations. For example, middle-class, urban, white, adult males in the United States follow the display rule of not showing fear in public. Their female counterparts in the pre-matron or pre-maternal role follow the display rule of not showing anger in public. Originally, you may learn the display rule by being told what to do and not to do, or you may learn it by observation and imitation without ever being specifically instructed. Once learned, display rules operate as habits, much like driving a car. You don't think about what you are doing unless you find you have made a mistake. People pause to consider what display rule to follow only if they are in strange circumstances (display rules vary from culture to culture) or if they can't figure out what the situation is, what their role is, what is expected of them.
".... Sometimes display rules are more specific in prohibiting a particular facial expression only in a particular role or social situation. For example, at middle-class American weddings, the bride may publicly cry or look sad, as may her parents, but not the groom or his parents....
"Display rules need not absolutely forbid or demand showing a particular emotion, but may instead specify adjustments in the intensity of an emotion. For example, at funerals the mourners should adjust their own expressions of grief in relation to the grief of others. There seems to be a pecking order of legitimate claims to grief....
"We have been discussing the CULTURAL display rules - conventions about facial expression that are followed by all (non-rebellious) members of a given social class, subculture, or culture. Their role in social life is the first, most widely shared reason people control their facial expressions. The second reason is the role of PERSONAL display rules - habits that are the product of idiosyncrasies in family life.... A personal display rule may also be quite general; histrionic persons customarily over-intensify all emotional expression ....
".... A third reason for facial control is vocational requirement. Actors, obviously, must be skilled in managing their facial expressions. So must good diplomats, trial attorneys, salesmen, politicians, doctors, nurses, and perhaps even teachers....
"The fourth reason why people control their facial expressions is need of the moment.... The embezzler must falsely show surprise when the theft is discovered. The husband must inhibit the smile of pleasure on encountering his lover, if in the presence of his wife.
"Usually when a person is said to lie with his face or words, he lies to meet some need of the moment. But all four reasons for controlling facial expression can involve false messages or the omission of messages. It is just that society condemns lying more if it is done for personal gain.... Rather than calling the process lying, we might better call it message control, because the lie itself may convey a useful message." (pp. 138-139)

A szerzőt és ezt a könyvét a Hazudj, ha tudsz! című sorozat miatt találtam meg.
Ez korábbi könyve, ami a vélemények alapján tudományosabb, mint az újabb munkája.

A könyv ilyen értelemben megállja a helyét, alaposan végigjárja a hazugság témakörét. Ki, mikor, miért, hogyan hazudik, mennyire számítanak az érzelmek, mikor helyes egy hazugság, milyen szintjei vannak, ...
Ezeket persze jórészt tudja az ember, de egy ilyen összefoglalás mégis alaposabb lehet.
Különösen, hogy néhány irodalmi példát, illetve konkrét bűnesetet is tárgyal, így elemezve a probléma minden részletét, a könnyen és a nehezen működő hazugságokat.

Önálló fejezet szól a testbeszédről és az arcjátékról, bemutatva azt is, hogy hazugságkor mik azok az árulkodó jelek, amiket könnyen elrejthetünk, és mik azok, amiket szinte lehetetlen.
Hosszan foglalkozik a poligráf szerepével, számtalan jogi szabályozást és alkalmazási esetet sorolva. Ez a rész nem volt izgalmasabb, mintha egy Magyar közlönyt olvasnék.
Viszont különösen tetszett a történelmi esetek (Hitler-Chamberlain, Churchill-Sztálin, Watergate, Kennedy-Gromiko) bemutatás, ebből olvastam volna többet is.

Több olyan problémám is volt a könyvvek, amiről nem annyira a szerző tehet.
Egyrészt számtalan esetben megemlíti, hogy amiről ír az még csak elképzelés, alig vagy egyáltalán nincs róla kutatás (monduk épp csak elkezdte Ekman is). Ez a szerző szempontjából tiszteletre méltó, hiszen ő a terület egyik megalapozója, az olvasónak viszont hiányérzete támad, hogy amit olvas, az mennyire megalapozott. Egy ennél újabb, tudományos könyv ezen a gondon segíthet.

Másik gond, hogy a könyvben leírtak nagyon kevéssé vihetőek át a gyakorlatba, vagyis elolvasva senkiből nem lesz természetes hazudozó vagy hazugságolvasó. Ez persze nem feltétlenül cél, de nyilván mindenki szeretné jobban tudni, hogy mi jár a másik fejében. Ehhez pedig a szerző szerint is rengeteg gyakorlás kell. A könyvben személyiségi okokból még fényképek sincsenek, csupán féltucat rajz. A tanuláshoz még a képeknél is többre, oktatófilmekre lenne szükség, részletes elemzéssel.

Összességében érdekes, elméleti anyag.

très bon livre pour savoir si mon mari me trompe.
Je vais divorcer grâce à mon avocat avec qui j'ai une liaison !

¿Sabe usted en qué momento alguien está mintiendo? ¿Es capaz de discernir las pistas que lo llevarán a averiguarlo? En cualquier caso, el libro del doctor Ekman le enseñará, entre otras muchas cosas, que las pupilas dilatadas y el parpadeo pueden indicar la presencia de una emoción; que el rubor puede ser signo de vergüenza, rabia o culpa; que ciertos ademanes son indicio de un sentimiento negativo; que una manera de hablar más veloz de lo habitual y en un volumen más alto tal vez denote ira, temor o irritación… Y éstos son sólo algunos de los indicadores que el autor utiliza para distinguir la realidad de la ficción. Tanto en su casa como en su lugar de trabajo, este guía le ayudará a aprender en qué elementos (no verbales) de la comunicación debe usted fijarse para saber si le están diciendo la verdad, incluyendo un cuestionario de 38 preguntas que le permitirán descubrir cualquier tipo de engaño.

Fuente: http://www.casadellibro.com/

As a general review of emotions this book was average. The recognition of minute facial expressions aspect was poorly organized, wordy and really quite tedious. Perhaps I will be more aware of true smiles in the future. Apparently the eye muscles cannot be tricked when there is no true happy emotion behind the smile.½

Would recommend, a little dry at times , more a primer on how to understand expressions.

Although probably not intended, this books tends to lead the reader to look at his emotions, and issues relating to compassion, to our excesses and extremes. A discussion between a scientist and a Buddhist, yet it illuminates many Christian revelations about our human nature.

Although probably not intended, the book tends to invite the reader to look at their emotions in order to deal with issues of compassion, of excesses and of extremes. A discussion between a scientist and Buddhist which illuminates so many of the christian principles.

A pleasant ping pong match between The Dalai Lama and Ekman...the title is a little misleading...unless you believe in the Socratic method...this conversation between the two really generates more questions than answers...