Paul Ekman And Facial Emotion Measurement

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In 2011, Kevin Chran wrote about Paul Ekman and his research on facial emotion measurement. As a matter of fact, when Ekman was fourteen in 1948 his mother committed suicide due to bipolar depression. Not only ... but also he wished that he could have seen the depression in her face but he couldn’t at the time. In the same fashion he wanted to find a way to help save more lives. Nevertheless, he ended up finding out that Darwin was right about emotions being universal. Until recently everybody thought it was culturally based. With this in mind, nobody believed him at first, it didn’t matter how much proof he brought. As a result, he is now known worldwide.

Ultimately he spent a lion share of his life creating the facial action coding system,

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