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“A tour de force. If you read this book, you’ll never look at other people in quite the same way again.”—Malcolm Gladwell Renowned psychologist Paul Ekman explains the roots of our emotions—anger, fear, disgust, sadness, and happiness—and shows how they cascade across our faces, providing clear signals to those who can identify the clues. As featured in Malcolm Gladwell’s bestseller Blink, Ekman’s Facial Action Coding System offers intense training in recognizing feelings in spouses, children, colleagues, even strangers on the street. In Emotions Revealed, Ekman distills decades of research into a practical, mind-opening, and life-changing guide to reading the emotions of those around us. He answers such questions as: How does our body signal to others whether we are slightly sad or anguished, peeved or enraged? Can we learn to distinguish between a polite smile and the genuine thing? Can we ever truly control our emotions? Packed with unique exercises and photographs, and a new chapter on emotions and lying that encompasses security and terrorism as well as gut decisions, Emotions Revealed is an indispensable resource for navigating our emotional world.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 18 reviews)

Emotional tells by A. O. (USA)

5 Stars
November 11, 2009
If you have ever had a feeling that something was not being said during a conversation, you may have been reading the other person's expressions. This book explains in works and pictures how we humans all have certain facial movements for emotions. A good primer for understanding interactions. The author's daughter is the model for most of the expressions but also included are real life photos. Very interesting.

Unbelievably Good by Dental Student, "Dave"

5 Stars
October 25, 2009
This book is the culmination of decades of research done by Dr. Ekman. It's expansive and easy to read. It's one of my favorite non-fiction books.

Understanding emotions by Ismail Bayraktar (Turkey)

5 Stars
October 08, 2009
It is very interesting that I can now understand how someone is feeling from the face muscles. Since I liked what author says, I bought his second book titled "Telling Lies". This book is on a "niche" area. For those who are interested, they will definitely like it.

Likely Good Information Poorly Shown by Jw Hall (Birmingham, AL USA)

2 Stars
September 11, 2009
I'm sure the author is an expert and knows his material, but the book is very poor. Poor in that the pictures are disjointed with the subject matter; too much referenced material from others that is descriptive but not very explanatory in just the textual sense, i.e., telling me what something looks like is difficult for me to understand when I've never seen it before - and I believe that's the key to micro expressions - observing the face and how it looks in order to be able to interpret it! The section on how to tell if someone is lying is useless in respect to actually being able to use micro expressions to do that. Define it - show me - then test me. There is an overkill in defining IT, awful and poor trying to show me, and the real test you have to buy on-line for more money! In my opinion, the entire book was like a teaser so you'd have to buy another book or his on-line "training." Bottom Line - I would not recommend this book for someone believing that after reading this book (even multiple times) one could put any of the information in it to real use - other than to talk about it in a very high level conceptual manner. I gave it a two star rating because I'm sure the Author knows how to use the material that HE couldn't explain so that I COULD (even) begin to use it. A total waste of money and time.

Highly useful handbook by Michael Lauren (Auckland, New Zealand)

5 Stars
September 10, 2009
This is an extremely valuable reference for anyone who is seriously interested in being able to read facial expressions. You will want to keep this book by your side at all times while honing your skills. The best thing about this book is that it provides the reader with a highly practical and useful summary of the scientifically developed theories of Dr Ekman. This is at a level that is easily understandable to lay people. The book also includes the many scientific references behind these ideas in an appendix. On the negative side, there were parts of the book I found a little bloated, and these seemed to me to be slightly rambling reminiscences. That is a personal view and other readers might enjoy them more. What I should stress, though, is that this does not undermine the usefulness of the book at all. The other thing to note is that it concentrates on the face and the facial muscles, there is little (if anything) about other body language. This is a must have book, and I highly recommend it. I have personally found it useful as a reference for my studies.

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