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A review by pika_berry
Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life by Paul Ekman
3.0
I am amused to the extent that this book talks about emotions without getting into psychology. Sometimes it comes very close (in the chapter about anger for example (though it’s wrong, but I won’t judge)), but it never crosses over.
It’s almost as if someone came up with a character just on the cusp of discovering meta cognition. Yet never quite does. Fascinating.
The book does provide some rare information on how to mechanically produce an emotion via manipulation of the facial muscles (and vice versa: how to spot an emotion). Which I guess implies that the author believes it can go both ways, which is likely to be true.
The information on how to mechanically reproduce an emotion, and vice versa, is useful. I’m now capable of spotting when I feel sad. I didn’t know what this phenomenon was.
This book is, at its core, a concrete how-to book.
It treats emotions as a given. A random thing that happens to us with no rhyme and reason, like rain and sunshine to an ancient peasant.
You will be dissapointed if you expect a system behind the individual emotions, or inquiries into the why (ie, psychology), as I was.
It’s almost as if someone came up with a character just on the cusp of discovering meta cognition. Yet never quite does. Fascinating.
The book does provide some rare information on how to mechanically produce an emotion via manipulation of the facial muscles (and vice versa: how to spot an emotion). Which I guess implies that the author believes it can go both ways, which is likely to be true.
The information on how to mechanically reproduce an emotion, and vice versa, is useful. I’m now capable of spotting when I feel sad. I didn’t know what this phenomenon was.
This book is, at its core, a concrete how-to book.
It treats emotions as a given. A random thing that happens to us with no rhyme and reason, like rain and sunshine to an ancient peasant.
You will be dissapointed if you expect a system behind the individual emotions, or inquiries into the why (ie, psychology), as I was.