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    Summary of Paul Ekman's book: Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life: Summary
    Summary of Paul Ekman's book: Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life: Summary
    Summary of Paul Ekman's book: Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life: Summary
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    Summary of Paul Ekman's book: Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life: Summary

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    Do you want to accurately interpret the hidden emotions in the face of those around you?
    Emotions influence our view of the world and how we interpret other people. However, we have mostly only learned how to speak with words, but not how to speak with our face and how to read another person's face. Our face and facial expressions are the mirror of our soul. To gain valuable insight into the world of emotions, it is necessary to perceive and interpret a sense of both our own emotions and emotional reactions of others.

    This summary allows you to gain a profound overview or quickly recap the original book to supplement your own reading experience. It concentrates the key messages, main ideas, viewpoints and arguments from the book "Emotions Revealed."

    In the process, you'll learn

    • how to tell a genuine smile from a fake one,
    • how to spot a liar,
    • how to recognize anger in time even before it shows itself openly in another,
    • and what emotions can be recognized by eyebrows alone.
    LanguageEnglish
    Publisher15MIN LTD
    Release dateFeb 8, 2022
    ISBN9798201524425
    Summary of Paul Ekman's book: Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life: Summary

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      ABOUT THE BOOK EMOTIONS REVEALED

      Is it possible to recognize emotions and derive targeted action strategies from them? In his book Emotions, Paul Ekman gives precise instructions on how to perceive and accurately interpret emotional signals in yourself and others.

      In 2003, the book was published under the original title Emotions Revealed. Understanding Faces and Feelings was published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in London. In 2007, the non-fiction book, which was published in its second edition in the German version by Springer Verlag in Heidelberg in 2010, was expanded to include the chapter Emotions and Lies. The book was in such demand that a reprint of the 397-page work was arranged in 2017.

      In his book, the well-known psychologist Paul Ekman presents his collected findings from decades of research around emotions and nonverbal communication. He writes in the first person and addresses his readers directly. In this way, he succeeds in presenting even dry scientific facts in a lively and easily understandable form.

      First, the evolutionary development of emotions is discussed and it is described why many emotions are common to all people in the world and are shown identically. This is followed by an explanation of why and in what situations people become emotional. The processes are treated holistically and not only the changes and signals in facial expressions are explained, but also those of the body and voice in connection with an emotion. The result is a detailed guide to deciphering true emotions in faces and body gestures.

      In total, Ekman knows about 10,000 combinations of different muscle movements that allow a sound interpretation. He focuses on basic emotions such as sadness, anger, fear and disgust and also devotes a small part of his book to positive emotions, which are generally easier to interpret, however. With detailed instructions, he first makes the emotions tangible in a self-experiment, and then uses numerous pictures to give precise instructions on how to decode facial expressions, as well as body language, when experiencing an emotion. This makes it possible to unerringly identify not only the basic feeling, but also the gradations of an emotion. The book also contains a large application section in which the acquired knowledge can be tested directly.

      However,

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