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Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast

Microexpressions: Fear, Surprise, Disgust, Empathy, and Creating Connection Part 2

Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast

David J Puder

Science, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Microexpressions are brief, involuntary facial expressions that are cues to the true emotions that someone is feeling. We see microexpressions in tiny twitches of the brows, the lips and nose. They can last for as little as 1/15th of a second on the face.

In this episode, we describe the science of the microexpressions of fear, disgust, and surprise and how to use it to connect with others.

For full PDF of the episode with links to videos of each emotion go to: https://psychiatrypodcast.com/resources

For link to the simple app that trains you on how to read microexpression go to: IOS Emotion Connection App

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Podcast. The podcast to help you in your journey

0:06.0

towards becoming a wise, empathic, genuine and connected mental health professional.

0:11.0

I'm your host, Dr. David Puder, a psychiatrist who splits his time practicing psychopharmacology,

0:17.0

individual and group psychotherapy, medical director of a day treatment program,

0:21.0

medical education research, and teaching residents and medical students.

0:30.0

All right, so this is the second part of the podcast I am here with,

0:38.0

soon to be Dr. Arianna Cunningham.

0:40.0

Hello, welcome to the sequel.

0:42.0

And we are going to start out with fear. So Arianna, how is fear seen in the face?

0:48.0

So fear on the face, you're going to see raising the upper eyelids,

0:53.0

tensing of the lower eyelids, kind of a bugging out, the eyes get bigger when you're looking at the face.

0:58.0

And the eyebrows are going to go up and together.

1:02.0

Yeah, so the, unlike fear which goes down and together.

1:05.0

And like anger.

1:07.0

And like, oh, I'm just sorry. Yeah, I was thinking anger.

1:10.0

We keep going back and forth between fear and anger.

1:12.0

Which can sometimes come next to each other, timeways, yeah.

1:15.0

Yeah, so, so anger goes down and together, discuss goes down and together.

1:19.0

Yeah.

1:20.0

Fear goes up and together, the, the eyebrows, and surprise goes straight up

1:26.0

and sadness, the inner part of the eyelids go up.

1:30.0

So looking at those sorts of pictures of the different emotions side by side,

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