Micro-Expressions

The article is about physiologist Mark Frank who studies facial expressions. He is employed by investigative bodies around the world for help with "top hits''. Frank's mentor in his pre-doctoral days was Paul Ekman, a philosopher in facial behavior at the University of California. Frank”in addition to teaching them how to recognize behavioral cues, he has successfully advocated the use of a "rapport building" style of communication in interviews, because it is much more effective than the hostile/accusatory styles used in the past."

Frank became able to tell when people were up to no good by there actions when he was a jumper at a night club. Frank and his colleague made a numbering scale for the movements of the face:” for example, left and right eyebrows up is 1; down, 2; eyebrows pulled together, 4; upper eyelid raised, 5, and so on and related them to expressions of various emotion that are found the world over (Science Daily).” If talking to a person their furrows, smiles, smirks, tics, frowns and wrinkles show ones true feeling about a subject offering a surprisingly accurate view of the emotions of that person. Frank has found sometimes involuntary movements of the forty four facial muscles that are connected by emotions like fear, distrust, distress and other emotions leading to dishonesty. This is how emotions are related to facial expressions.


University at Buffalo. "Lying Is Exposed By Micro-expressions We Can't Control." ScienceDaily 5 May 2006. 27 March 2009 <http://www.sciencedaily.com­+/releases/2006/05/060505161952.htm[ej5] >.