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lotuspuppy
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19 Oct 2010, 8:47 am

I am in a library right now, and lo and behold I am sitting next to a book of potential interest. It's called "Emotions Revealed" by Paul Elkman, and it actually talks about reading emotions. I think it tries to use the emotion thing as a discussion on how emotions manifest itself across cultures, but I find any comparative literature to be quite helpful.

I am surprised I found it. I thought literature on emotional expression is quite limited. Has anyone heard of this book by any chance?



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19 Oct 2010, 2:09 pm

paul ekman is supposed to be an expert on body language, he worked with the fbi (or cia not sure) training their people how to spot lies and work the lie detectors. also provided help for the show ''lie to me'' its loosely based on his work.



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19 Oct 2010, 6:50 pm

TB wrote:
paul ekman is supposed to be an expert on body language, he worked with the fbi (or cia not sure) training their people how to spot lies and work the lie detectors. also provided help for the show ''lie to me'' its loosely based on his work.

Thanks. It sounds like Mr. Ekman may have some interesting things to say.



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19 Oct 2010, 7:46 pm

I'd be interested in taking a look at that book.


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