Face Reading by Malcolm Gladwell

Ekman discovered that people in different cultural settings struggle to interpret facial expressions.

Silvan Tomkins was a virologist who shot footage in the jungles of Papa New Guinea.

Ekman and Wallace Friesen sorted through 30,000 meters of film footage to analyze facial expressions of different tribes.

Silvan Tomkins correctly identified the South Fore tribe as violent and the Kukukuku tribe as peaceful based on facial expressions.

Ekman and Friesen worked together to create a taxonomy of facial expressions.

According to the passage, we easily distinguish complex differences in facial expression.

The passage suggests that the meaning of facial expressions is culturally determined.

Paul Ekman believed that people from different cultures would not agree on the meaning of different facial expressions.

The passage suggests that face reading is an exact science.

Ekman's research findings contradicted Mead's beliefs about the cultural determinants of facial expression.