Emotions Revealed by Paul Ekman, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £16.99, ISBN 029760757X
HERE Paul Ekman, doyen of contemporary emotion researchers, turns to the practical management of emotion in everyday life. The result is an outstanding example of popular scientific writing.
Ekman introduces his own research in two succinct, accurate and accessible chapters. The seven basic emotions – anger, disgust, contempt, sadness, happiness, fear and surprise – are marked by distinctive changes in the face, voice and physiological processes such as heart rate, which he calls “affect programs”. They are presumably coordinated in one or more regions of the brain, but our understanding…
