You just asked your boss if you could take off Monday and although they said "yes" for a brief moment you thought you saw anger on their face. You told yourself you are just being silly they said yes- so everything is fine. Fact or Fallacy? Fallacy. You likely just noticed a microexpression. A microexpression is an involuntary emotional response that leaks the truth about how a person feels a fraction of a second before their voluntary response can register. Dr. Paul Ekman (www.paulekman.com) traveled the world studying emotions in other cultures and found that there are seven facial expressions that are understood universally. It turns out that happiness, sadness, anger, disgust, fear, contempt, and surprise can be registered by people of different cultures even if they don't speak the same language or live in drastically different socioeconomic conditions. If you have a goal to increase your emotional intelligence or to become an expert at deception detection, Dr. Ekman's training programs (or free YouTube videos) will get you off to a great start. Another example of how we are all really so much more alike than we are different! Come back next week for a new "Free Friday Fact or Fallacy" (F4) blog post. Dr. Misty R. Sharp Ladd, CPP, PCI, PSP
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Do You See What I See?
08.07.2022
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