# Paul Ekman

**URL:** <https://pheromonetalk.com/t/paul-ekman/31624>\
**Category:** Lounge\
**Created:** [August 17, 2009, 12:42pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/paul-ekman/31624 "2009-08-17T12:42:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Scaro](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/scaro/32/2439_2.png) [@Scaro](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Scaro)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2009, 12:42pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/paul-ekman/31624/1 "2009-08-17T12:42:26Z")

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This might be of some interest to those familiar with the facial action coding system. I had never really seen anything about the man himself. Hard to resist staring/studying the face of THE man behind facial reading.

Oh yeah, about 17min into it, he talks about showing pictures of facial expressions to a stone age tribe. The tribe could tell the expression but sometimes couldn’t tell if it was a man or a woman if they were Caucasian? 😕

[![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/pheromonetalk/original/2X/b/b7c039258b827dead7d1f693d5d757ebf9c092ee.jpeg "Conversations with History: Paul Ekman") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA8nYZg4VnI)