Emotions Revealed, Second Edition: Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life [Paperback]

A bestselling, essential guide that will deepen your perception of strangers, loved ones, and those in between. Now featuring new chapters,Emotions Revealedremains a trusted classic.

A tour de force. If you read this book, you'll never look at other people in quite the same way again.
Malcolm Gladwell

Renowned psychologist Paul Ekman explains the roots of our emotionsanger, fear, disgust, sadness, and happinessand shows how they cascade across our faces, providing clear signals to those who can identify the clues. As featured in Malcolm Gladwell's bestsellerBlink, Ekman's Facial Action Coding System offers intense training in recognizing feelings in spouses, children, colleagues, even strangers on the street.

InEmotions Revealed, Ekman distills decades of research into a practical, mind-opening, and life-changing guide to reading the emotions of those around us. He answers such questions as: How does our body signal to others whether we are slightly sad or anguished, peeved or enraged? Can we learn to distinguish between a polite smile and the genuine thing? Can we ever truly control our emotions? Packed with unique exercises and photographs, and a new chapter on emotions and lying that encompasses security and terrorism as well as gut decisions,Emotions Revealedis an indispensable resource for navigating our emotional world.

A tour de force. If you read this book, you'll never look at other people in quite the same way again.
Malcolm Gladwell

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