MicroExpressions and Deception Analysis

DECEPTION ANALYSIS AND YOU

Lesson one

Recent research on deception uncovered the existence of micro expressions and subtle expressions that result from suppressing strongly felt emotion.

Definition

A micro expression is registered on the face in a micro second. They differ from other facial expressions in that we do not really like displaying them (either consciously or unconsciously) and they disappear quickly. Micro expressions involve the whole of the face and engage the same muscles in the face in all of us. Subtle expressions involve part of the muscle set and are often tell tale signs of the full emotional state.

When and why do they happen?

Micro-expressions and subtle expressions have been scientifically documented as the concealed signs of emotion, which are displayed on the face in high stakes situations when we have something substantial to lose or gain in a situation.

So, they occur when a person either deliberately or unconsciously conceals a strong emotion. There are now scientifically known to be seven emotions which have universal signals on the faces of human beings which are: anger, fear, sadness, disgust, contempt, surprise and happiness. You can learn to recognise them now, consciously, as you already know them to a degree as you will begin to realise during this course.

These expressions are flashed upon the face in a fraction of a second. Literally, blink and you miss them. Well, you miss then consciously, though your unconscious has always known about them and has learned from a very young age how to respond to them.

Why you need to know about them

Have you ever thought someone was deceiving you, though you just weren’t sure of it? Were you proved correct, months or even years down the track and just wished you had paid attention to that ‘gut instinct’ (which was you unconscious screaming at you, but you had no logical reason to entertain the idea). Do you sometimes wish you could tell how people really felt?

Do you interview people at work or wish you could read the mind of the interviewer and deliver the perfect response? Would you simply like to have the tools to determine if the person you are talking to is being truthful?  This doesn’t have to be a negative situation; hopefully folks do lie to you to save you from bad news or to keep that special Christmas present a secret from you until the big day.

What you will learn in the entire course

In this course you will learn how to recognise the displays of emotion on the face of the person you are communicating with, before they know it themselves and often, with their complete unawareness of your recognition. People will start to comment that you must be a mind reader or ask just how did you know?

What you will need: A mirror and/or a webcam or some way of seeing your facial movements

What you will learn in this section: How your forehead moves when expressing certain emotional states. How to identify those states on the faces of others.

Why this is helpful: Identifying an emotional state in another, even if it is denied by them verbally, increases your communication skills dramatically as you respond to that state.

Introduction to face reading

You do not know your own face as well as you think you do! The first step in identifying states of emotion on others is to know what your own face is doing. We all have the same musculature in the face, men, women, children, whether in outer Mongolia or inner Birmingham. It is now proven that there are seven emotional states which are identifiable on the human face and common to all. These are innate, not learned. Certain facial muscles and thus emotional ‘faces’ are easy to pull voluntarily and thus falsify. Certain facial muscles involved in particular expressions are very difficult, or impossible, to activate voluntarily for most of the population and thereby particularly reliable in reading others.

Your forehead

Have you wondered why you feel uneasy when speaking to someone who has had some ‘work’ done to their forehead? When the forehead is frozen, we are denied the unconscious information we need to interpret subtle (and not so subtle!) information given away by our forehead.

Of course, there is more to the face than just the forehead, though this course will bring your attention to the muscles of the forehead and how the unconscious part of you, which governs all of your bodily processes, activates the particular muscles of the face to communicate how you are feeling to others.

Yes, you already know a great deal about how others communicate with you by subconsciously ‘reading’ their facial muscles, the forehead particularly, which is what all great actors and actresses and many politicians have either learned or inherently have known to be true.

The big gap in your knowledge is, strangely, your own face.

Now, get your mirror or prepare to switch on your webcam so that you will be able to see your own face clearly.

Prepare your face. I know this sounds a bit daft. Actually this ought to read perhaps ‘Don’t prepare your face’. Just remember times you have seen your own face without the preparation you usually give it before your own viewing! You know, when someone has taken a photograph of you that you do not like, or when you catch your own reflection in a shop window, for example. Or, nowadays, when your mobile phone’s camera is reversed as you see your own weirdly angled face gazing perplexedly into that small metal box instead of the glorious scene you thought you were photographing!

I would like you to do this experiment

Before gazing at your own image, relax your face. Consciously relax all the muscles in your forehead, cheeks, jaw and chin. It is quite a skill to let it all go, though do it.

Now, literally, without moving a muscle, on the face in any case, look at your face closely.

When you accept your face as it appears at rest, now it is time to make note of the areas of your face, without judgment.

Close your eyes and think of something sad. What do you think will happen to your forehead? What do you think may happen to your eyebrows? Truly think of something very said to you personally and then, and only then, open your eyes to look at your image.

What usually happens is that we are so surprised or sympathetic to our expression that we immediately change that expression ‘automatically’. If this happens, do the experiment again.

I shall show you my own forehead now, please realizing that these expressions are somewhat exaggerated to give you a proper indication of the movements of the forehead, in other words, obviously my forehead is not that wrinkly (okay, yes it is, though aren’t you lucky to have such a clear example, praise the situations which have given rise to such wrinkles to help you today!).

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