Emotions Revealed
by Paul Ekman
Phoenix $120
What triggers emotions? How do our faces and bodies express anger, sadness, fear, surprise, contempt or happiness? Can we learn to distinguish between a social smile and one that comes from the heart? Can we really ever master our emotions? Paul Ekman, a professor of psychology at the University of California Medical School, has studied emotions for more than 40 years and thinks he has the answers. His research is based on his psychiatric patients, as well as less troubled adults and children, in the US, Japan, Brazil and Papua New Guinea. He has also worked with the FBI and the CIA. The book includes photographs illustrating the subtlest signs of emotion, and exercises to help control emotions, rather than letting them control you.