Being able to understand how people feel and seeing their facial expression is an important skill advantageous at certain professions or wanting to help an individual. Unmasking the Face demonstrates how to read emotions based on facial marks made by movement of the face. Dr. Ekman answers common confusions about certain emotions such as the difference between surprise and fear. His two focuses of the book are: describing the experience of the emotion and the basis of the emotion to understand why you made that facial expression and understand others’ feelings. Being able to spot your emotion help you learn what your facial muscles are instructing you to do. Spotting other’s allow you to help that person and build a strong relationship.
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Being able to read someone’s feeling affected me since I can understand and help people I am not close to even though they won’t fully open up to me. Facial expressions are spontaneous and hard to control when someone truly feels that way about a situation. It can be interpreted by anyone in the world. Most expressions are universal and can instantly be read easily. Emotions understood by different cultures is another theme of the book. A Charles Darwin quote was impactful and meaningful for the book, it expresses the basis or facial expressions. He states: “Facial expressions are universal, not learned differently in each culture; that they are biologically determined, the product of man’s evolution.” (Darwin, 23) Regardless of where someone is from, if they are mad, or sad, people can identify how that person is feeling. The quote importance is that people do not need to always express their emotions to someone because there sometimes might be a language barrier. Specific features that are part of emotions can be understood all around the world. The book allows the audience to comprehend behaviors and emotions of the people around them. It emphasizes the importance of facial expressions and being able to read them. This skill a deeper level of analyzation that includes how each emotion is initiated while being in touch which
Being able to read someone’s feeling affected me since I can understand and help people I am not close to even though they won’t fully open up to me. Facial expressions are spontaneous and hard to control when someone truly feels that way about a situation. It can be interpreted by anyone in the world. Most expressions are universal and can instantly be read easily. Emotions understood by different cultures is another theme of the book. A Charles Darwin quote was impactful and meaningful for the book, it expresses the basis or facial expressions. He states: “Facial expressions are universal, not learned differently in each culture; that they are biologically determined, the product of man’s evolution.” (Darwin, 23) Regardless of where someone is from, if they are mad, or sad, people can identify how that person is feeling. The quote importance is that people do not need to always express their emotions to someone because there sometimes might be a language barrier. Specific features that are part of emotions can be understood all around the world. The book allows the audience to comprehend behaviors and emotions of the people around them. It emphasizes the importance of facial expressions and being able to read them. This skill a deeper level of analyzation that includes how each emotion is initiated while being in touch which