The real secret to success is about understanding and knowing how to address people and situations appropriately!

Humintell’s emotion recognition training can help you do just that and is perfect for every individual and skill level.

What are Microexpressions?

Microexpressions are concealed facial expressions of emotion, which people elicit in high stakes situations when they have something substantial to lose or gain.

They are characterized by the speed at which they flash on and off the face (as fast as 1/16th a second).

Why Humintell’s Trainings?

Our courses are the ONLY scientifically validated emotion recognition training tools on the market.

Humintell also offers trainings that teach you to detect facial expressions of emotion from multiple angles (frontal view, profile view and 3/4 side view of the face), a feature that is unique to our company.

 How Can Learning Microexpressions Help People?

Many of us know that being able to recognize microexpressions can aid in detection deception; therefore, it is a technique that is being more widely used in government organizations and law enforcement.  However, microexpressions can be beneficial in a wide variety of fields such as education, global business traveling, studying abroad, the health industry and much more.

A microexpression training tool, like MiX, can also be a non-pharmacological intervention technique to treat individuals who are affected by certain disorders such as schizophrenia as well as treating social disabilities.

There has been much emotion training literature that has been focused on training people with developmental or social disabilities, including individuals with Asperger’s Syndrome (e.g., Barnhill, Cook, Tebbenkamp, & Myles, 2002), Autism (Bolte, Hubl, Feineis-Matthews, Prvulovic, Dierks, & Poustka, 2006; Solomon, Goodlin-Jones, & Anders, 2004), mental retardation (McAlpine, Singh, Ellis, & Kendall, 1992; Stewart & Singh, 1995), to individuals with acquired brain injury (Guercio, Podolska-Schroeder, & Rehfeldt, 2004).

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TEDTalks is a video podcast of the best talks and performances from TED conferences.  They feature the world’s leading thinkers and doers who give talks on their lives, their work, their revolutionary ideas & concepts in roughly 5 -20 minutes.

TEDTalks began as a simple attempt to share what happens at the TED Conference with the world. Under the slogan “ideas worth spreading,” talks were released online beginning in June 2006.  They rapidly attracted a global audience in the millions.  In April 2007, the entire TED website was re-engineered around TEDTalks, with the goal of giving everyone on-demand access to the world’s most inspiring voices.

Below is one such Talk, featuring Marco Tempest a renowned magician, who uses three iPods like magical props and  spins a clever, surprisingly heartfelt meditation on truth and lies, art and emotion.

 ”One of my favorite magicians is Carl Jermaine.  When asked about deception he said this, ‘magic is the only Honest profession.  A magician promises to deceive you and he does.’ ”  He goes on to state that Deception is a fundamental part of life. “We deceive to gain advantage and hide our weaknesses.  Art is a deception that creates real emotion.”  

Click here to view the embedded video.

News Medical. Net  just reported on research by Rebecca Riddell and colleagues suggesting that a single stereotyped pain expression during infancy does not exist.  The authors say that each facial expression is attached to a different type of distress.

They found 7 distinct facial expressions after vaccinations on infants from 2 months to 12 months, which could signal different types of pain and aid communication of distress to caregivers.

“We propose that these seven categories of expressions may have evolved to allow infants to communicate two crucial broad states to caregivers: level of distress and degree of regulation from distress,” write Riddell et al.

The researchers categorized babies’ facial expressions using the Facial Action Coding System for Infants and Young Children (BabyFACS).  According to this system, the authors found that the expression of the Red facial type (defined as cry, accompanied by oblique eyebrows) within 1 minute of a vaccination varied significantly according to age.   For example, 7.49% of 2-month-old babies showed the Red facial expression compared with 5.12% of 4-month olds, 9.51% of 6-month olds, and 18.87% of 12-month olds.

The Green facial type (horizontal mouth, closed eyes) changed significantly with age, with 2.49% of 2-month olds expressing it compared with 2.40% of 4-month olds, 2.51% of 6-month olds, and 0.00% of 12-month olds.

A quick note on a similar topic:  The Times of India has reported that the gene which determines human facial expressions has been identified.  Researchers used MRI scans to identify 5 genes that determine human facial expressions.

“These are exciting first results that mark the beginning of the genetic understanding of human facial morphology…Perhaps some time it will be possible to draw a phantom portrait of a person solely from his or her DNA left behind, which provides interesting applications such as in forensics.  We already can predict from DNA certain eye and hair colors with quite high accuracies,”  said Professor Manfred Kayser from the Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

What are your thoughts on the unveiling of  Facial Expression Genes ?