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Darwin, Deception, and Facial Expression
Author(s) -
EKMAN PAUL
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1196/annals.1280.010
Subject(s) - darwin (adl) , deception , facial expression , expression (computer science) , psychology , focus (optics) , emotional expression , cognitive psychology , social psychology , communication , computer science , physics , software engineering , optics , programming language
A bstract : Darwin did not focus on deception. Only a few sentences in his book mentioned the issue. One of them raised the very interesting question of whether it is difficult to voluntarily inhibit the emotional expressions that are most difficult to voluntarily fabricate. Another suggestion was that it would be possible to unmask a fabricated expression by the absence of the difficult‐to‐voluntarily‐generate facial actions. Still another was that during emotion body movements could be more easily suppressed than facial expression. Research relevant to each of Darwin's suggestions is reviewed, as is other research on deception that Darwin did not foresee.