"Think for a moment about how much a person is able to convey with just a facial expression. A smile can indicate approval or happiness, while a frown can signal disapproval or unhappiness. In some cases, our facial expressions may reveal our true feelings about a particular situation. While you may say that you are feeling fine, the look on your face may tell people otherwise."
"Emotions Expressed Through Facial Expressions Just a few examples of emotions that can be expressed via facial expressions include:
Happiness Sadness Anger Surprise Disgust Fear Confusion Excitement Desire Contempt
Universal Facial Expressions Facial expressions are also among the most universal forms of body language. The expressions used to convey fear, anger, sadness, and happiness are similar throughout the world. Researcher Paul Ekman has found support for the universality of a variety of facial expressions tied to particular emotions including joy, anger, fear, surprise, and sadness."
Information found via [http://psychology.about.com/od/nonverbalcommunication/ss/understanding-body-language_2.htm]
How to Easily Read Faces and Facial Expressions
It is much easier to read facial expressions and find out what someone is feeling than is believed. You will learn how to recognise 'micro-expressions' small facial expressions that show what a person is feeling.
1-Before trying to read anyone's face, teach yourself to recognise 'micro-expressions'. These are small facial expressions, a different one for whenever someone is feeling an increase in any different emotion. They are:
Happiness - A smile, quite an obvious one, however, if there is no wrinkling, increase in puffiness or general muscle movement around the eyes, the person is faking the smile.
Sadness - Eyebrows up, lips down-turned. Eyebrows up can also mean the person is feeling guilty.
Contempt - One corner of the mouth rises, like a sort of 'half-smile'. In extreme contempt, the person's mouth shifts over in an odd way.
Disgust - The top lip is raised, showing the teeth in extreme cases, like a scorn.
Surprise - Gaping mouth with eyebrows raised. If this expression lasts longer than a second, the person is faking it.
Fear - Eyebrows raised and lower part of the mouth lowered in extreme cases. Swallowing also indicates fear.
Anger - Lips tightened, flaring nostrils, eyebrows pulled down and together are all signs of anger.
2 - Start looking. When you've taught yourself to recognise micro-expressions try looking for them in people you see everyday.
3 - Establish a 'baseline' in the person you're looking for micro-expressions in.
A baseline is their normal muscle activity when feeling little or no emotion. Ask them normal questions. Take mental note of their muscle activity when telling the truth. You're pretty much done.
Just look for micro-expressions and try and fit them in with what the person is saying.
[http://www.wikihow.com/Easily-Read-Faces-and-Facial-Expressions]
Quiz into reading people's facial expressions
[http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/ei_quiz/]
Having found this quiz which could be very useful in the future, it covers the question 'How Well Do You Read Other People?'. We as a group could potentially create our own quiz as a means to identifying a problem amongst a community in need of help.
To Really Read Emotions, Look at Body Language, Not Facial Expressions
We think we're reading facial expressions, but most of us rely on body cues to understand emotion Read more: To Really Read Emotions, Look at Body Language, Not Facial Expressions
[http://healthland.time.com/2012/11/30/to-really-read-emotions-look-at-body-language-not-facial-expressions/#ixzz2tfiEZIjR]
"We like to think we can read people like a book, relying mostly on tell-tale facial expressions that give away the emotions inside: the way the brows lift slightly with alarm, or the crow’s feet that crinkle with a wide smile. But when it comes to the strongest emotions, we read much less from facial expressions than we think we do. In fact, even though we believe it’s the face that tells the story, we’re typically reading something very different: body language and social cues. Read more: To Really Read Emotions, Look at Body Language, Not Facial Expressions"
Reading Between the Lies Identifying Concealed and Falsified Emotions in Universal Facial Expressions
"The widespread supposition that aspects of facial communication are uncontrollable and can betray a deceiver's true emotion has received little empirical attention. We examined the presence of inconsistent emotional expressions and “microexpressions” (1/25–1/5 of a second) in genuine and deceptive facial expressions"
[http://pss.sagepub.com/content/19/5/508.abstract]
Autism spectrum, and taking the test
[http://kgajos.eecs.harvard.edu/mite/]
