The video is an introduction to micro and macro expressions, based on the study done by Paul Ekman, Ph.D. The video includes Samuel Baun, Paul Ekman and Enka Rosenberg talking about expressions and how they are read off ones face to determine their consoled feelings.
There are two kinds of universal expressions, micro expressions and macro expressions. A facial expression is a split second expression hiding ones true feelings. A macro expression is the normal expression and last from two to five seconds. A micro expression last less than one twenty-fifths of a second.” The seven universal emotions are anger, contempt, fear, discuss, happiness, sadness and surprise (Universal Expressions).” For example the emotion sadness is represented when the eyebrows go up and together. Contempt is shown by a slight snarl of the upper lip. It is discovered that humans make over 10,000 expressions where 3,000 are related to or caused by emotion. When having a normal everyday conversation we use from fifty to sixty micro or macro expressions. If one were to use a freeze frame or pause button a micro expression would look the same as a macro expression just the micro expression is so short one may not notice that it is being made unless one knows what they are looking for. My big question I want to answer for this project is “ Do you really want to know the emotion that people want to console from you, ‘cause once you got it you cannot turn it off (Ekman, Universal Expressions).”
