Paul Ekman

Paul Ekman was born in 1934 and was an undergraduate at the University of Chicago and New York University. He got his Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Adelphi University and became a Clinical Psychology Officer in the Army. His early work involved nonverbal behavior and as the clocked ticked he began to focus on evolution and semiotic frame. He also researched emotion and expressions. Paul is now the Manager of the Paul Ekman Group, LLC, which is a company that makes devices related to emotional skills and is researching to help national security and law enforcement. Articles about his work have been published in big magazines like The Times, Psychology Today, and The New Yorker. Paul has been on several well known tv shows like 20/20, 48 Hours, Oprah, Good Morning America, etc.

Micro-expressions are defined as short involuntary facial expressions. They generally occur when someone is about to start an emotion they don't want to show. All micro-expressions can show you is that the emotion is concealed, but not why. The old tv show Lie To Me used micro-expressions to point out those lying and those telling the truth. When you lie you are trying to not show emotions because they generally give you away so a micro-expression appears.