I've found a new hobby, ladies and gentlemen: Body Language and Facial Expressions.

Have you heard of the show 'Lie to Me?' I saw the pilot a few months ago, and I was enthralled. Here was a guy that used facial expressions and body language to decipher what people were thinking and whether they were lying or not. Now, I had to ask myself whether all of this mumbo-jumbo was factual or fictitious, and it turns out, it's completely real.

Dr. Paul Ekman has been studying human expressions for over 30 years, and he's come up with multiple volumes of findings, as well as becoming a university professor. I've read two of his books, his magazine articles, and his online materials, as well as a few books by other body expressions experts. The information is astounding:

Facial expressions are interesting in that 7 basic expressions (fear, anger, sadness, happiness, contempt, anger, and disgust) are UNIVERSALLY the same between all human beings. It shows that basic facial expressions aren't taught, but known genetically. Isn't that just COOL? It means that if you're a housewife in Indiana or a shaman in Africa, a broker in South Korea or an actor in England, your expressions are linked.

This post has gone on for a bit, but I'll post more about the subject later. There's some pretty amazing stuff, folks...

3 comments:

Heywood Family August 15, 2009 at 4:49 PM  

I love that show!!!
Dana

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