Nonverbal Messages: Cracking the Code: My Life's Pursuit

by Paul Ekman

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.

Genres: Psychology, Social Science

320 pages, Paperback

Published October 19, 2016

About the author

American psychologist that pioneered the study of emotions' relationship to facial expressions.

Reviews

[Alex · Rating 4 out of 5]

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.

[Robert Bogue · Rating 4 out of 5]

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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