Regulating Our Emotions
Psychologist and author Paul Ekman talks about the difficulty of trying to control or regulate one's emotions. "For some people, it'll be easier to achieve," Dr. Ekman says, "because nature gave them more of a gap between impulse and action. It's a ...
Facial Action Coding System, The
Psychologist and author Paul Ekman talks about his work in developing a Facial Action Coding System, which he describes as, "...like musical notation is to music. It's a way of describing exactly what's producing an expression." Based on that work, ...
Microexpressions
Psychologist and author Paul Ekman explains that his work on microexpressions is being used by, "...everybody from Microsoft to federal and local police agencies...It just helps them be more in tune with how the other person is feeling." Dr. Ekman a...
Dangerous Intent
Psychologist and author Paul Ekman talks about his work that seeks to predict when someone will commit homicide or other violent acts. It involves recognizing the signs of impulsive, out-of-control rage, as well as the sort of anger that's premedita...
Face of An Assassin
Psychologist and author Paul Ekman talks about utilizing his work on reading facial expressions to predict who in a crowd of people might be bent on assassination. Dr. Ekman notes that a facial expression alone isn't a guarantee of what someone is p...
Emotions, Gender and Age
Psychologist and author Paul Ekman says that his research has not revealed any difference between males and females in the expression of emotion. Dr. Ekman adds that he hasn't studied the triggers of emotion or the attempts to "socially manage" emot...
Darwin and Psychology
Psychologist and author Paul Ekman talks about significant contributions Charles Darwin made to the study of emotions. "He was very interested in a question that almost no one has asked since," Dr. Ekman notes, "...which is, why do we have the parti...
Is Mind Distinct from Body?: Hobbesian Materialism and the Mind
Seventeenth century materialists, led by British philosopher Thomas Hobbes, object to the idea of mind as a non-physical substance. For Hobbes the universe consists of "matter in motion," nothing else. If dualism struggles to account for how body an...
Organizing Emotions
Psychologist and author Paul Ekman explains that most people don't organize their emotions. What they sometimes do, however, is try to avoid certain situations which could give rise to specific emotions. Using himself as an example, Dr. Ekman talks ...
Meaning of Life, The
Philosopher Ian Hacking confesses that he doesn't know what the meaning of life is, but adds that one way to live a full life is to live a life full of thought. Another way, he suggests, is to live a rich, emotional life.