CHAPTER THREE

Reading the Unconscious Signals of Others

How to Recognize and Understand Emotional Cues in Gestures

This chapter will discuss the groundbreaking work of Paul Ekman, the researcher who discovered micro-expressions and sought to decode lying. It will offer a two-part method for reliably reading other people’s unconscious body language and emotional signals—often before they’re aware of them themselves.

The World’s Greatest Expert on Lying Unburdens Himself

If Paul Ekman had met the Dalai Lama earlier, this book might have been a chapter shorter.

They met in 2000: the world’s greatest expert on lying and the spiritual leader of millions. Ekman sat next to the Dalai Lama during a break in a multiday seminar in Dharamsala, India. ...

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