Berlusconi & Lie to me Here you can find a funny video where Ekman's theories, described in the TV series "Lie to me," are applied to a conference of our Premier.
This video will show you very much simplified some of the theories of nonverbal communication, and even theories based on documented, however, should not be considered a scientific product.
LIE TO ME ... From America in search of lies Lie to me is an American television series whose plot centers on the figure of Paul Ekman and draws inspiration from his hands full with life and personal experience.
The front-man of affairs is the chameleon Tim Roth (Pulp Fiction, Funny Games, Reservoir Dogs) who gives all her verve to build the interpretive character of Dr. Cal Lightman, a renowned psychologist success, specializing in body language and micro expressions of the face, thanks to his decades of study and travel the world, between the different races, has built a wonderful theory about the connection of natural emotions of the human body with facial micro expressions.
This gives an interesting scientific basis to the content of fiction, also focuses on the high level of appreciation of the TV audience for these kinds of topics in other similar series.
Lightman can feel all the moods of people, discovering the deepest secrets of a person (with the help of ordinary psychology), such as adultery, false witness, complicity in an event and everything that a person can be investigated. Of course, as the American mentality, if not the world teaches us, all lie on the face of the earth and made the great Doctor has built his fortune with high-level staff (FBI, Government, city administrations) offenders participating in interrogations , suspects or prisoners, acts to discover the truth.
Roth is not limited to the simple explanation of His theories on the contrary, it shows all the tests and the resulting microexpressions adopted that, when played back and examined, are compared with the same emotions traced in the analysis of famous people (Bill Clinton, Obama, Hussain, Gorbachev, etc.).
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The pioneer Paul Ekman, who was born in Washington DC in 1934, . Professor of psychology at the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California (UCSF).
Ekman is known throughout the world as an expert in research on emotion and nonverbal communication and in particular for his studies on the expression of emotions and the corresponding physiological activity on the face.
His research was funded by the National Institute of Mental Health for 46 years.
and contrary to some anthropologists, like Margaret Mead, Ekman found that most of the facial expressions and their corresponding emotions are culturally determined, but presumably of biological origin, as theorized by Charles Darwin. Ekman's theories are now universally accepted by the scientific world.
He developed the Facial Action Coding System (FACS) to classify all possible human expression.
FACS
Friesen with his colleague during his early studies of human expressions and emotion, he made a map of all the facial muscles involved in the production of facial movements .
He then noted the presence of 46 units of the main motion, which is defined in the Facial Action Coding System.
Of these, 32 are 'action units', which are associated with specific muscles, while 14 are 'action descriptors' or movements are more complex, however, are coordinated.
Today is the standard used for the categorization of physical expressions of emotions and is useful both to psychologists than to youth.
Ekman's theory is based on an experiment analysis and cross-cultural comparison. In this experiment
scientific rigor was applied to a previous research documented in The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (Darwin, 1872).
Following a number of criteria previously established, were selected six photographs, each associated with a specific emotional expression.
Emotions are selected from Ekman:
Happiness Surprise Disgust
Anger Fear Sadness
The experiment was then conducted from 21 study groups, each in a different state.
Of these, only 11 states were of Western culture.
Each of the six photos were shown to people and they had to associate the photo of the face to one of six emotions (of course translated into their language).
The result was that:
In all the 21 people have been uniquely associated with happiness, sadness and disgust.
In 20 out of 21 states had a majority also agreed on the surprise.
In 19 out of 21 states the majority were in agreement on fear.
In 18 out of 21 states the majority were in agreement on rabies.
In all cases where there was no correlation, however, found the answer choice is the same for all the others who did not agree, forming in fact only two possible alternatives.
Although the research does not exclude the possibility that there are other emotions are universally recognized, from a base of 6 still seems a good reference.
We can then conclude that the facial expressions that show certain feelings are universal regardless of cultural background. In fact, although the physiological differences of men to cover a small percentage of the face is composed of the same number of facial muscles. That is why the expressions are the same.
