Whatever culture we come from, emotions play a huge role in our lives and in every relationship within them. Whether anger, joy, fear or sorrow, they can be incredibly powerful things - but can be equally hard to understand or control. In EMOTIONS REVEALED, Paul Ekman draws on a lifetime's study to take the reader on a complete tour of the emotional self. Against a background of specially commissioned photographs and forceful news images from around the world, he examines and explains how, when and why we become emotional and how far we can change what we get emotional about; why we sometimes get emotional when others don't; how to recognise and understand the subtlest signs of emotion both in ourselves and other people, and much more. This stunning volume contains a test to find out how good you are at spotting emotions, excercises to improve your awareness of the bodily sensations involved in each emotion and an explanation of how to apply all this information to enhance your daily life.

保羅·艾剋曼，美國著名心理學傢、全球首席識謊專傢。

1934年齣生於美國華盛頓。畢業於美國芝加哥大學和紐約大學，在加州大學舊金山分校的蘭利波特精神病研究所臨床實習一年；1958年，獲紐約市阿德菲大學博士學位；1958～1960年，任職於新澤西州迪剋斯堡美國陸軍參謀部；1972年，任加州大學舊金山分校心理學教授至2004年退休；1991年，獲美國心理學會頒發的傑齣科學貢獻奬，並被列入20世紀最有影響力的前100位心理學傢名單。現居住在美國加州奧剋蘭市。

艾剋曼教授主要研究臉部錶情識彆、情緒與人際欺騙。他的主要著作還有《解密臉部：從臉部綫索識彆情緒的指導》（1975年）《說謊：發現商場上、婚姻裏及政治中的欺詐》（1985年）《孩子為什麼說謊》（1992年）等。