The human face can, and usually does, present a wide range of emotions, sometimes only manifesting in barely-noticeable
microexpressions. The more you pay attention to these cues, the better you'll get at reading people.
Characters have
microexpressions.
Microexpressions!
Davis, "Learning a sparse codebook of facial and body
microexpressions for emotion recognition," in Proc.
"We have developed algorithms to read the
microexpressions in the face and translate in real time the emotions people are feeling," Pocovi says.
Watch out for your loved ones'
microexpressions: fleeting facial expressions driven by our gut reactions.
From that measly (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16866745) tenth of a second came a busy mosaic of body language cues, facial
microexpressions, and many more assessments of your dress, posture, smile, and overall demeanor.
Icelandic poet Magnus Sigurdsson captures the
microexpressions of nature within his delicate lines, accruing in stanzas no less spare for the immensity of ideas contained within them.
Part II shows actual frames from the study, redrawn for anonymity, showing the
microexpressions and other body language associated with different types of interactions.
He has spent four decades observing, interviewing, and videotaping couples and cataloging the multitude of
microexpressions and macro-patterns that make--or break--a relationship.
American psychologist Paul Ekman's "atlas of emotions" describes over 10,000
microexpressions, and, recently, researchers from the University of Ohio published findings that reveal 21 "combination" emotions.
expressions,
microexpressions, and squelched expressions.