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Paul Ekman, PhD


Paul Ekman, PhD, was one of TIME magazine’s Top 100 most influential people of 2009. He is the author of more than 100 articles, as well as co-author of Emotion in the Human Face, Unmasking the Face, and Facial Action Coding System. Ekman is the editor of Darwin and Facial Expression and co-editor of Handbook of Methods in Nonverbal Behavior Research, Approaches to Emotion, The Nature of Emotion, and What the Face Reveals. He also is author of Face of Man, Telling Lies, Why Kids Lie, Emotions Revealed, Dalai Lama-Emotional Awareness, and editor of the third edition (1998) and the fourth edition (2009) of Charles Darwin’s The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1998). Currently, Ekman is manager of the Paul Ekman Group, LLC(PEG), a small company that produces training devices relevant to emotional skills and is initiating new research relevant to
national security and law enforcement.