Decoding the face

1 Paul Ekman is one of the early pioneers in the field of expression classification evaluation.  He developed some of his centrial theories about fundamental things like the number of possible facial expressions a human face can make to the nature of facial expression and emotional correlaries.  Here are the takeaways:

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• Human facial expressions are the same for the 7 core emotions across, gender, race, age and culture.  This was proven by studying ancient cultures that had remained untouched since the stone age.
• Modern people develop methods and tequniques to “Mask” our natural emotional responses in order to decive in order to be polite but also to lie
• Subtle facial expressions and very quick facial expressions occur that betray us when we lie
• Less than 5% of people are attentive to these subconscious emotional responses and a larger proportion of them work in the secret service or as mediators

3 See for your self:  VIDEO ON YOUTUBE