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Emotions Revealed

Understanding Faces and Feelings

By Paul Ekman

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| Hardcover | 9780297607571

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Whatever culture we come from, emotions play a huge role in our lives and in every relationship within them. Whether anger, joy, fear or sorrow, they can be incredibly powerful things - but can be equally hard to understand or control. In EMOTIONS REVEALED, Paul Ekman draws on a lifetime's study to Continue

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Interesting to know that some emotional expressions are universal. Dr Ekman is not only creative in his hypotheses, but also diligent in proving his points. He writes to teach how to recognise subtle emotions, functions of every of those emotions, as well as how to handle them. Besides, it helps me ... (continue)

Interesting to know that some emotional expressions are universal. Dr Ekman is not only creative in his hypotheses, but also diligent in proving his points. He writes to teach how to recognise subtle emotions, functions of every of those emotions, as well as how to handle them. Besides, it helps me to communicate my feelings. However, as Dr Ekman also mentioned, the book only deals with the major five clusters of emotions - sadness and agony, anger, surprise and fear, disgust and contempt, enjoyable emotions. Other emotions that are not unfamiliar, such as embarrassment, shame and guilt, are left out. At the end of the book, there are photos to test your ability in face-reading.

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Agatha_Ngai said on Sep 20, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

This book talks about how our facial expression reveals our emotion. However, I find this work is rather superficial, lacking the depth in analyzing the reason behind.

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Waleswong said on Feb 6, 2011 | Add your feedback

Ekman leverages his research on facial expressions to explore human emotion in Emotions Revealed. At the most basic level, the book serves as a guide to perceiving and understanding emotions in oneself and others. More thought-provoking, though, are Ekman's insights into emotion as a driver o ... (continue)

Ekman leverages his research on facial expressions to explore human emotion in Emotions Revealed. At the most basic level, the book serves as a guide to perceiving and understanding emotions in oneself and others. More thought-provoking, though, are Ekman's insights into emotion as a driver of behavior and his conjectures as to the evolutionary bases for emotion. For the motivated reader, references to academic research are provided.

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Victor B said on Aug 18, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback