Robert Greene suggests observing micro-expressions to reveal genuine feelings. Approaching someone from the side catches ...

Understanding emotions empowers us to feel better and navigate the emotional challenges of life. Why doesn't our society ...

Ekman and Friesen's finding of cross-cultural universals in emotional recognition overturned a major assumption of the Blank Slate model of human nature. Here's how.

Introduction Emotion Displays in Media: A Comparison Between Romanian, Turkish, and Euro-American Children's Storybooks The study of emotion norms is important to better describe and explain cultural ...

This claim is called the “basic emotion approach” (Ekman, 1992). Second, they assert that each emotion produces a facial expression that is quickly recognized by others.

Phase 2: Presentation of model photographs of the POFA database We randomly selected a stimulus of each emotion from the POFA database of basic emotion (Ekman & Friesen, 1976), which is one of the ...

The Basic Emotion Approach Charles Darwin (1872) conducted the first detailed investigation of emotions in his book, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals.