Your face reveals you about you.

Your face reveals you about you.
You can not lie. Your face reveals you. This applies worldwide, for all we use the same facial expressions . It shows American research .
The various facial expressions of sadness , joy, anger, fear , disgust, contempt and surprise can be interpreted by anyone in the world .



A revolutionary idea in the 1950s , when Paul Ekman began researching . He was met with snorts when he presented his hypothesis , which, incidentally, was once Charles Darwin . Facial expressions are culturally determined and differ between cultures, was the prevailing view .

But Paul Ekman went right into the jungles of Papua New Guinea and checked . Yes, people interpret facial expressions just like us. Although recent research on blind from birth shows that we express emotions with the same faces.

Paul Ekman's pioneering research has been the model for the series Lie to Me , which was shown on Swedish television the other year . There, police help of Paul Ekman's alter ego Cal Lightman to uncover liars.

As in real life , Paul Ekman , a company that teaches , among other things the police to interpret facial expressions . The company sells a computer program where you can learn the tricks .

There is universal also trying to hide their feelings. In order to expose a liar you have to be able to record even the body language , tone of voice and the lightning-fast facial expressions , micro- expressions , which sweeps across the face before the liar arranges his features .

- Contradictions between the different expressions can reveal it as trying to hide something , says Paul Ekman , in an interview in Research & Progress .

Paul Ekman gave two guest lectures at the end of last month at Lund University. There he is , moreover,

honorary doctorate last year. The award he has earned through his more than 30 years ago, research in Lund together with anatomy professor Carl Herman Hjortsjö .

Paul Ekman has recently come out with a book about compassion, which he co-authored with the Dalai Lama. He is now retired from his post as professor of psychology at the University of California in San Francisco.