TEHRAN (IBNA) -- Psychology book, ‘Darwin and Facial Expression: A Century of Research in ‎Review’ (2006) by American psychologist Paul Ekman, a pioneer in the study of ‎emotions and their relation to facial expressions has been published in Persian.‎
The book has been translated into Persian by Sina Sharifzadeh Khorasani. Arjmand Publishing has released ‘Darwin and Facial Expression’ in 408 pages.
In this work, Paul Ekman and a cast of other notable scholars and scientists, reconsider the central concepts and key sources of information in Darwin’s work on emotional expression. First published in 1972 to celebrate the centennial of the publication of Darwin’s, ‘The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals’, it is the first of three works edited by Dr. Ekman and others on the subject.
This Malor edition contains new and updated references. Darwin claimed that we cannot understand human emotional expression without understanding the emotional expressions of animals, as our emotional expressions are in large part determined by our evolution.
Not only are there similarities in the appearance of some emotional expressions between man and certain other animals, but the principles which explain why a particular emotional expression occurs with a particular emotion also apply across species.
Ekman has created an “atlas of emotions” with more than ten thousand facial expressions, and has ‎gained a reputation as “the best human lie detector in the world”.‎
He was ranked 59th out of the 100 most cited psychologists of the twentieth century. Ekman ‎conducted seminal research on the specific biological correlates of specific emotions, ‎demonstrating the universality and discreteness of emotions in a Darwinian approach. ‎