Following an earlier insight by Charles Darwin, the American psychologist Paul Ekman claimed, with much attendant publicity, that he could detect emotional feelings such as anger, fear or guilt, even among those trying to hide them, by observing transient facial "microexpressions". NICVA Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action is registered as a company limited by guarantee in Northern Ireland No. The idea of "Blue Monday" in January as the most depressing day is unfounded—a PR stunt for selling holidays. These studies found that people are only slightly better than chance at guessing who in a group likes them and who does not (the average correlation here was a meager .

Bush met Vladimir Putin, he felt like he had learned a great deal about the inner “soul” of this former KGB agent by reading his behavior.You emerge from reading it understanding both yourself and others better, which is not a bad dividend from reading fewer than 200 pages.

Another great place for references in this book for people who want to deal with the subject a bit more deeply.In your cooler moments, you probably realize that even you sometimes misinterpret and misunderstand others, including the people you should understand the best. In 2014, Epley was named as one of the "World's Best 40 under 40 Business School Professors" by Poets and Quants, and identified as one of 8 Young Business School Professors on the Rise by CNN. By reading this book I know that if I do not understand somebody's reactions or behaviour, communication is the best way to sort everything out. Some of your coworkers like you and others do not, but I wouldn’t count on you knowing the difference. It’s not that our volunteers consistently thought they were more attractive than they were actually rated, but that their predictions of how attractive they would be considered from a single photograph simply bore no relation to how they were actually rated on the basis of that photograph.