Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life Broché – 20 mars 2007

J'ai mis du temps à le lire tant il est complet. Paul Ekman, connu pour son décodage des émotions sur le visage, fait le point sur les différentes émotions colère, tristesse, peur, surprise, dégoût et joie. Il indique des éléments clés comme la différence entre émotion et sensation, les points du visage à scruter pour déceler une émotion et les différents types de joie. Un livre indispensable sur le sujet. Je le conseille vivement.

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linares pierre

parfait

Commenté en France le 4 juin 2020

livre en anglais décrivent bien les expression facial et les émotion humaine

Commenté en France le 21 avril 2020

General shape of the book so so, not over the moon about it, but good content, even if a little dated and fast delivery.

moyen - quelques informations utiles mais assez de blabla

aad

Commenté en France le 5 janvier 2011

Le livre contient des informations utiles mais j'attendais plus.
Je reconnais quant meme que le sujet est assez difficile.
Je pense aussi qu'il y a beaucoup d'information inutile a propos de la vie personelle de l'auteur.

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Rita Naat

Nice book

Commenté en France le 21 février 2013

Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life

This book is very pleasant to read even if it only explain basic stuff

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Jérémie

petite inatention

Commenté en France le 26 juin 2010

j'ai fais une petite erreur d'inatention en achetant ce livre, c'est bête de ma part mais je n'avais pas vu qu'ilv était édité en anglais donc, manque de bol pour moi, je n'ai pas pu le "dévorer" comme je l'aurais souhaité!^^

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DJU

pas mal du tout !

Commenté en France le 1 juin 2010

bonne approche des attitudes, un peu long parfois sur ses expériences mais entre le début et la fin, faites le test et vous pouvez être sur que vos capacités de reconnaissance des émotions seront meilleures !!

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Bruno

Muito bom

Commenté au Brésil le 28 juillet 2022

Le produit multimédia n'a pas pu être chargé.

Chegou bem rápido, o livro veio certinho! As páginas estão bem amareladas como o anúncio avisou mesmo, mas nada danificado, da pra ler perfeitamente.

Amazon Customer

Very Useful book

Commenté au Canada le 7 mai 2022

An excellent book on understanding facial expressions as well as developing emotional intelligence. Would recommend to anyone. It's also an entertaining read. I will be reading this one again there is much to learn in such a short book and I found it helpful right away.

Victor

El más completo de la trilogía obligada de Paul Ekman

Commenté au Mexique le 1 juin 2019

El libro se centra básicamente en narrar al inicio cómo nació la idea de estudiar la universalidad de las emociones, y cómo se llegó a conocer las emociones universales, posteriormente, explica el “cómo” se sienten físicamente esas emociones universales, te explica algunos “disparadores” y cómo tratar con ellas cuando llegan a ser peligrosas, además de enseñar cuáles son los músculos faciales involucrados en cada una con fotos.
Mi recomendación es que si te interesa el tema, compres juntos este libro, El libro “Unmasking The face” y “Telling Lies” o en español “Como detectar mentiras” de Paul Ekman.

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Prasanth pushpan

Great book

Commenté en Inde le 30 juillet 2019

It's a very informative book like paul ekman other books..

Yongyong Wu

Emotions Revealed: A thorough evaluation of emotions

Commenté aux États-Unis le 7 octobre 2012

Point of the review

As a student in Neuroscience class, I read this book because its discussion about emotions corresponds to my research topic in Pseudobulbar Palsy. The central focus of this book, emotions, caught my attention since emotions are a huge part of our lives and we are constantly dealing with our own as well as other people's emotions everyday. Thus understanding better of emotions, I may be able to improve relationships with people in a more conscious way.
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overall opinion of the book

I love how this book allows you to be able to reflect on yourself in terms of how you express emotions and how well you deal with them; as you're reading the book, you are slowly becoming aware of why certain people act a certain way (because of the impact of their emotional state) and being able to evaluate other people's emotions more accurately so that you can avoid conflicts to occur. This book is very practical to real life situations. I feel that reading this book definitely helped me to improve the quality of my emotional life in the sense that now I am more aware of my own and others' feelings through noticing the facial, vocal, and physical emotions expressed.
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Style and structure of the book.

This book is written in first person by a professor, Dr. Paul Ekman, who has dedicated his research in emotions through scientific studies around the world. The materials discussed in the book are constructed with both his scientific findings and also his proposal of concepts from his observations that had not been scientifically tested.

The book is consisted a total of ten chapters, with the first four chapters discussing Dr. Ekman's research findings, explaining what emotions are and how they work, and how one can become more aware of the emotions. In the beginning Dr. Ekman would ask many questions to involve the readers into deeper thoughts. In the last six chapters, Dr. Ekman focused in more details on discussing how to deal with each type of emotions such as sadness, anger, surprise, fear, disgust, contempt, enjoyable emotions, and lies.

Throughout the book, Dr. Ekman would suggest a concept, such as the refractory period for anger, then he would elaborate on the issue with a real life example so that the reader can relate and understand the idea better. Not only that Dr. Ekman explained the important concepts/definition of certain emotions, he also explicitly suggested ways to deal with them, making the book even more useful for everyday life.
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Synopsis of the book.

Emotions Across Cultures
In this section, Dr. Ekman explained how he began his area of research in emotions in the time of late 1950s. The main idea of this first chapter is that Dr. Ekman wanted to discuss the issue of whether emotions are universal or culturally variable. He obtained his conclusion through scientific experiments by traveling to various isolated villages that had no contact with the media and the outside world.

When Do We Become Emotional
In this chapter, Dr. Ekman listed the situations, a total of 9 pathways, in which we become emotional. These pathways were proposed in conclusion of research findings, and the experimental methods are briefly described in the text. There are triggers to all emotions, both socially learned and genetically inherited, and understanding the source of trigger will be beneficial in a variety of ways. "We share some triggers, just as we share the expressions for each emotion, but here are triggers that are not only culture-specific, they are individual-specific."

Changing What We Become Emotional About
"We do not seek to challenge why we are feeling a particular emotion; instead, we seek to confirm it."
"For a while we are in a refractory state, during which time our thinking cannot incorporate information that does not fit, maintain, or justify the emotions we are feeling."
With the information and concepts provided above, Dr. Ekman began to suggest ways that we could control our emotions such as how to weak our emotional triggers through various ways in order to change what we become emotional about; since most of the time the things we feel angry towards to may not necessarily be as harmful as we see it.

Behaving Emotionally
Most people have two main conflicts with emotions that they either over-control their emotions or they over-express it. In order to find the balance between expressing and controlling, Dr. Ekman identified many problems we encounter unconsciously that cause us to behave emotionally inappropriate such failure to recognize the source of emotion and jumping to conclusion too quickly. Thereafter he suggested many ways in which we could deal with the problems such as being more attentive to our emotions.

"One method people use to become more attentive to their emotions is to use the knowledge about the causes of each emotions."

In the rest of the book, Dr. Ekman addressed the following emotions of sadness, agony, anger, surprise, fear, disgust, contempt, enjoyable emotions, and lies. For each emotion, Dr. Ekman gave a detailed explanation of what kind of situations cause such emotion, how should we recognize such emotions in ourselves and others (illustrated pictures of facial expression are shown), and finally how we should use the information we perceived in a sense of how to deal with the emotions.
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Recommendation
I recommend this book to everyone because emotions are universal that we have to deal with everyday. I am sure everyone has experienced in a situation where someone become angry with you, and you became angry too because the other person's anger; such situations most of the time result in ugly conflicts. However after reading this book, you might consider the source that triggered such emotion and evaluated the other person's feelings before you can react emotionally so to avoid unnecessary conflicts. This book helps you to develop a stronger relationship with people, to improve one self's quality of life, and ultimately helps you to become a happier person. So this book is definitely for everyone, especially for those people who are experiencing emotional conflicts with families or significant others.

Reading this book has personally helped me because I know of someone who becomes frustrated very easily over trivial things. After reading this book, I am now more aware of his frustrations (breathing more heavily; eyebrows pulled together), and that I know during this refractory period (the period that he is continuously emotional), he cannot gather information that are not relevant to his frustration, so he would say hurtful things. Now that I am more aware and understand better of the source of his frustration, I do not take his words personally whenever he is under such emotional stress, and I have also learned to give him space whenever this emotion occurs, so that he will have time to get over his refractory period. This is so much better than me getting angry at him also. ☺

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