Emotions Revealed: Understanding Faces and Feelings

Emotions Revealed: Understanding Faces and Feelings

by Prof Paul Ekman (Author)

Synopsis

Whatever culture we come from, emotions play a huge role in our lives and in every relationship within them. Whether anger, joy, fear or sorrow, they can be incredibly powerful things - but can be equally hard to understand or control. In Emotions Revealed , Paul Ekman draws on a lifetime's study to take the reader on a complete tour of the emotional self. Against a background of specially commissioned photographs and forceful news images from around the world, he examines and explains how, when and why we become emotional and how far we can change what we get emotional about; why we sometimes get emotional when others don't; how to recognise and understand the subtlest signs of emotion both in ourselves and other people; and much more. This stunning volume contains a test to find out how good you are at spotting emotions, exercises to improve your awareness of the bodily sensations involved in each emotion and an explanation of how to apply all this information to enhance your daily life.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Edition: 1
Publisher: Orion
Published: 08 May 2003

ISBN 10: 029760757X
ISBN 13: 9780297607571
Book Overview: DANIEL GOLEMAN: 'Emotions Revealed will leave everyone who reads it more intelligent about their emotional life... A charming, sound, sane map to the world of emotions, the perfect guide.' JOHN CLEESE: 'Emotions Revealed showcases Paul Ekman's forty years of academic research and great common sense, providing a fascinating and enormously helpful picture of our emotional lives' OLIVER SACKS: 'There has not been a book on this subject of such range and insight since Darwin's famous 'Expression of the Emotions' more than a century ago' MALCOLM GLADWELL: 'If you read this book, you'll never look at other people in quite the same way again. 'Emotions Revealed' is a tour de force' An accessible, fascinating, clearly structured and authoritative book guaranteed to have a wide popular appeal Highly promotable author recently voted one of the 100 most influential psychologists of the 20th century He is a frequent consultant on emotional expression to the CIA, FBI, lawyers, judges and businesses, such as PIXAR, who used his Facial Action Coding System in the production of 'Toy Story'

Media Reviews
There has been huge interest from the media in this fascinating book and Paul is over here at the moment doing publicity. He has done an interview for THE DAILY TELEGRAPH where the journalist and Paul went round the National Gallery looking at the paintings with Paul reading the emotions on the portraits. He has also been interviewed for the GUARDIAN, which will run in their LIFE SECTION on 19 June. Paul wrote a big piece for THE OBSERVER which ran in theircrime supplmenent on Sunday 27 April. While he was here Paul was interviewedon THIS MORNING (ITV) 3 June, THE FI GLOVER SHOW (BBC Radio 5 Live) 2 June, JOHNNIE WALKER SHOW (BBC Radio 2), 2 June, EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOASTER (BBC Radio4), BBC RADIO SHROPSHIRE and NEWSTALK 106 for Ireland. Reviews are just starting to come in: 'Here Paul Ekman doyen of contemporary emotion researchers, turns to the practical management of emotion in everyday life. The result is an outstanding example of popular scientific writing.'NEW SCIENTIST 'There are some fascinating titbits along the way. I was struck by his suggestion thatwhile emotions are vital tools for dealing with the outside world, moods area destructive by-product and that we'd be better off without them. Ekman canbe riveting on the minutae of facial expressions, especially the way that anexpression can be observed even when an emotion is being half-felt or suppressed.'Robert Hanks, THE DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A brilliant and gripping read'THE GOO
Author Bio
Paul Ekman is a professor of psychology at the University of California and a world-renowned expert on facial expression, deception and emotion. He has consulted on and appeared in many television programmes in both the UK and US and is the author or editor of 14 books and over 100 scientific papers.