Even children as young as one or two years old can recognize the emotions of others through expressions, which is why it is often said that expressions are the lingua franca of the world.
But sometimes, people will disguise expressions, words, and actions for various purposes, and among these disguises, the most difficult to disguise is actually expressions, especially micro-expressions.
Micro-expressions are people's subconscious expression reactions, flashing, the shortest is only 25/1 second, but such a short micro-expression can reveal a large number of secrets, conveying a person's most true inner feelings, so many people are studying micro-expressions, and moving them to business negotiations, psychotherapy, criminal investigation and other things.
Paul Ekman is known as the father of micro-expressions, the founder of the field of modern expression research, Wallace A. V. Friesen has worked with Paul Ekman for many years, integrating knowledge of facial expressions with other disciplines. The two have jointly created the book "Micro Expression Analysis", hoping that everyone can understand micro expressions, identify micro expressions, and benefit from this book.
In this "Micro Expression Analysis", the author focuses on explaining the most common expressions that people have to express emotions, such as angry expressions, surprised expressions, sad expressions, happy expressions, and so on.
In the book, the author analyzes these expressions in detail, showing how people's eyebrows, eyes, mouth and other facial features express their emotions. Take surprise, the eyebrows generally go up, the skin under the eyebrows stretches, and wrinkles appear on the forehead. The eyes will widen, the lower eyelids will be loose, and the upper eyelids will be raised. The mouth opens naturally, loose and not tight, and the degree of mouth opening increases with the degree of surprise. When these characteristics appear on people's faces, we can understand that he is surprised.
But many people will also say that people's emotions are very complex, most of the time, at the same time, a person's heart will be mixed with a variety of emotions, such as surprise accompanied by fear and anger, such as sadness with anger and so on.
At these times, we have to be more careful to distinguish those fleeting expressions, and we have to learn to distinguish the nuances of certain very close expressions.
For example, people will also open their eyes when they are afraid, which is very similar to opening their eyes when they are surprised, but there is also a difference between the two, when they are afraid, the eyes will not only lift the upper eyelids, but also the lower eyelids will be raised, covering part of the iris. And when surprised, the eyelids are loose.
In the book, in order to let everyone better understand and master micro-expressions, the author is equipped with a large number of pictures, these pictures are very intuitive, and the author has spliced the pictures to compare, in order to let everyone see the characteristics and similarities and differences of various expressions at a glance.
In addition to introducing the extreme characteristics of various expressions, the author also teaches everyone to learn to recognize the expressions of liars in the book, and guides everyone to practice, which are very interesting and useful, which can be said to be practical exercises to learn micro-expressions.