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Nonverbal Messages: Cracking the Code: My Life's Pursuit
In Nonverbal Messages, Paul Ekman reveals the motivations and the serendipity that led to his many remarkable accomplishments—mapping the vocabulary of gestures, providing a tool for measuring facial expressions, and proving the evidence of their universality.
- GenresPsychologySocial Science
320 pages, Paperback
Published October 19, 2016
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Paul Ekman
57 books867 followersAmerican psychologist that pioneered the study of emotions' relationship to facial expressions.
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January 2, 2017
Interesting history of how micros got discovered
Since I saw the Lie to me TV show, I became interested in micro expressions. This book is a auto-biography of Paul Ekman who is one of the main researchers in this field. The book describes the steps and the events that triggered him in doing his discoveries and how he later became a good collaborator with the Dalai Lama and how that changed his life. It doesn't go into great length into the science of the micro expressions, but I found it interesting to read and learn how micros came to be.
Since I saw the Lie to me TV show, I became interested in micro expressions. This book is a auto-biography of Paul Ekman who is one of the main researchers in this field. The book describes the steps and the events that triggered him in doing his discoveries and how he later became a good collaborator with the Dalai Lama and how that changed his life. It doesn't go into great length into the science of the micro expressions, but I found it interesting to read and learn how micros came to be.
April 22, 2021
I can summarise EVERY chapter of this book:
1. I got a grant, was really lucky and it funded my lab and research
2. The research was amazing and I’ll tell you about this amazing thing that happened as a result of said research *turns page* you can find out in my book telling lies and also in my better book emotions revealed
3. I’m quite angry but better since I became great friends with the Dalai lama, more on that later I’m also close friends with blah I expect you to have heard of but more on why I don’t speak to them later
I read the book because I wanted to finish it and it was a huge disappointment. The final chapter is a hard sell on his products.
In short, very repetitive without revealing too much and well...it sucked.
1. I got a grant, was really lucky and it funded my lab and research
2. The research was amazing and I’ll tell you about this amazing thing that happened as a result of said research *turns page* you can find out in my book telling lies and also in my better book emotions revealed
3. I’m quite angry but better since I became great friends with the Dalai lama, more on that later I’m also close friends with blah I expect you to have heard of but more on why I don’t speak to them later
I read the book because I wanted to finish it and it was a huge disappointment. The final chapter is a hard sell on his products.
In short, very repetitive without revealing too much and well...it sucked.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
July 2, 2018
Most of the time, my reviews are roughly linear to my reading. However, this review of Nonverbal Messages: Cracking the Code: My Life’s Pursuit is different. It’s different because it’s an autobiography written by Dr. Paul Ekman, and in it he refers to his other works, including Telling Lies. I reordered them so that this could stand as the summary of Dr. Ekman’s work.
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