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Learning how to decode facial expressions is like having a superpower. The face and its facial expressions, also known as microexpressions, are the window to the soul. If you know how to read them.

The good news is by their face. The Face of a Leader: Look at these faces of CEOs. Can you tell which ones have the most profitable companies? In this, researchers asked participants to rate these CEOs based on their picture.

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Their ratings accurately correlated to the level of profit the CEO’s company made. O’reilly (Chevron), G. James Mulva (Conoco Phillips), C. Lee Scott Jr. How to Read A Face: Knowing how to read and interpret microexpressions is an essential part of. Here is my brief guide to understanding the microexpression. A microexpression is a brief, involuntary facial expression that appears on a person’s face according to the emotions being experienced.

Unlike regular, pro-longed facial expressions, it is difficult to fake a microexpression. There are seven universal microexpressions:,,,,, and. They often occur as fast as 1/15 to 1/25 of a second.

The face is the best indicator of a person’s emotions. Yet, it often is overlooked.

Paul Ekman, whose research is the premise of the show Lie to Me, has done groundbreaking research on decoding the human face. He has shown that facial expressions are universal. In other words, people in the US make the same face for sadness as indigenous people in Papa New Guinea who never have seen TV or movie characters to model themselves after. He also found that congenitally blind individuals, those blind since birth, also make the same facial expressions, even though they never have seen other people’s faces. Ekman has designated seven facial expressions that are the most widely used and easy to interpret. Learning to read them is incredibly helpful for. If you want to practice reading people’s faces, it is important to know the following basic expressions.

I would recommend trying the following faces in the mirror so you can see what they look like on yourself. You also will find that if you make the facial expression, you also begin feeling the emotion yourself! Emotions not only cause facial expressions, facial expressions also cause emotions.

The premier training program for learning to recognize subtle expressions. Provides foundational knowledge of how emotions emerge in just one region on the face.

Subtle expressions are the very “mini” expressions that often appear in just one region of your face, such as the brows, eyelids, cheeks, nose, or lips. They can occur when a person is trying to conceal a strong emotion — subtle expression can leak, exposing the true emotion in a tiny change in expression. These small movements may also occur when an emotion is just beginning, often before the person is aware of their emotional state. How are the training tools formatted? Our training tools are exclusively online and therefore there is nothing to download or to be shipped.

The tools are all web-based applications using a combination of text, photos, videos, and auditory commentary for learning application. While the format of each tool is a little different, each one generally follows a series of learning, practice, and test sections to measure your accuracy and improvement over time. How long do the tools last? Can I use the training tools more than once? Beginning the day you purchase your training tools package, you may access and begin your training. During that time, you are granted unlimited use of the tools in that package. You can (and we suggest you do) use your tools frequently for additional practice.

Subscription lengths vary across packages, please review our chart for more information. 30 days before your tools are set to expire, you will receive an email from us asking if you would like to renew your tools at a discounted price. What languages are the training tools available in?

Most of our tools feature both English and Spanish caption capabilities. All users will be prompted at the beginning of the trainings to choose a language and will have the option to switch between languages throughout the tool. We are excited to make these universally applicable tools more accessible one step at a time. Stay tuned for more language options coming soon! Do you provide CEUs or certificates for completing the trainings?

Unfortunately we do not provide CEUs for our trainings. We do, however, offer individual certificates for each training tool.

Our Micro Expressions and Subtle Expressions Training Tools certificates are score-based and granted with scores of 80% or higher. Our Responding Effectively certificates are completion based and granted once you have completed each emotional scenario and response option. Can I share my account with others? As part of our Terms and Conditions, training tools are licensed for individual use ONLY. What’s the difference between the online training tools and FACS? The online training tools are interactive modules which help you learn to detect micro expressions and respond to emotional expressions. There are a total of seven training tools which are combined into three different packages.