FBI Micro-Expression Psychology

Chapter 1 Preface
People need to understand each other, and only when they understand each other can they live in harmony.At the same time, in interpersonal communication, knowing more about others can help people discover the other person's true thoughts and personality traits from behind their speech and body movements, and also help people better grasp the initiative in conversation.In life, people will find that many people are often frustrated in interpersonal communication due to their lack of ability to observe words and emotions.

However, in interpersonal communication, a person who does not know how to observe words and expressions is like blindly operating the tiller to steer a ship without knowing the direction of the wind.That is to say, when a person interacts and communicates with others, if he cannot detect the emotional changes of the other person from the expression of the other person, and cannot figure out the personality traits of the other person, it will be difficult to know whether the other person is interested in the content of his conversation. , whether you like or dislike your behavior.If you don't understand these, it will be difficult to achieve good communication results, and you will often be bored by others.This will undoubtedly have a negative impact on interpersonal communication.If you want something from others, such communication will inevitably be difficult to achieve what you want.

As we all know, observing words and expressions means that people have a more in-depth and objective understanding of other people's emotions, personality traits, psychological changes and other information through other people's words and gestures, so that they can make correct responses based on their own judgment.

As a communication language, body gestures and expressions are much more reliable than oral communication.It can be said that disguising language symbols is easy, but disguising body symbols is not so simple.In social communication, human beings help themselves to convey information through facial expressions, body posture expressions, clothing, intonation, timbre, volume, etc.The body expression’s reaction to the world around people is conditioned and is not taken into account. It is part of the micro-reaction to psychological stress. Since it comes from instinct, it is not controlled by the mind, and it is difficult to cover up and camouflage.

Therefore, after being stimulated by the outside world, the micro-reactions represented by micro-expressions that appear immediately can truly reproduce a person's inner thoughts.In other words, the responses made at this time are the most authentic, and therefore the most effective clues to understanding others.

When interacting or communicating with others, many people like to know others by intuition. Of course, this is feasible to a certain extent, but it is also easy to be deceived by others.Only by being able to make correct inferences and judgments about the psychological changes and personality traits of others from the posture and expression of others can one truly master the ability to know people.

Psychological research has found that when people communicate, 7% of the effective information comes from the content of the speech, 38% comes from the voice, and 55% comes from body language, that is, the posture and expression of the body.Because sometimes, for some reason, people will use lies to cover up and disguise everything about themselves, in order not to be known by others.However, his body posture and expression will betray him invisibly.In other words, information such as people's emotional changes and personality traits will always be "leaked" from some familiar expressions and fleeting micro-expressions.Human micro-expressions usually last only 1/25 of a second, but although such an unconscious expression will disappear in an instant, it will always be seen by caring people, so as to understand the true thoughts hidden behind it.The one that has done the best in this regard is none other than the FBI in the United States.In order to break through the high self-protection fortress erected by the criminal suspect, FBI agents will carefully observe every subtle expression of the suspect during the interrogation process.Because it is difficult to find anything of value from the suspect's words, they will seize the opportunity to speak and justify their crimes.However, since the body expression expresses emotions, the parties are often not aware of it, so as long as the clues are found from the suspect's body posture and expression, a breakthrough in the interrogation can be found, thereby clearing the way for the successful cracking of the case.For this reason, when FBI agents join this organization, they need to receive training and assessment in this area, and FBI psychoanalysts are also very famous for their research on body language.It can be seen from the various cases cracked by the FBI that the observation of the suspect's body posture and expression is a necessary way for them to make the criminal confess.

Eyes are the windows of a person's soul, so they are also the easiest to "leak secrets".People's happiness, sadness, anger, tension, fear and other emotions will be revealed unconsciously from the eyes.Therefore, if you want to understand others, you should first catch them from his eyes, observe the emotional changes in his heart through the various expressions presented by his eyes, so as to understand his true intentions.

Of course, the gestures and expressions of each part of a person's body have their own ways of conveying information such as emotions and personality traits. Therefore, if you want to understand others comprehensively and deeply, you must not neglect all aspects of observation.Perhaps it is his eyes, or a subconscious gesture, or an inadvertent movement of his feet that allow us to capture the valuable information leaked by him, so that in the process of our understanding of it, he can help us understand basis for analysis and judgment.

This book "FBI Micro-expression Psychology" just introduces the methods of identifying other people's emotions, psychological changes and personality traits from body language from various aspects. Among them, there are facts, theories, and methods.I believe that when you read, you can learn some skills of knowing people and apply them in interpersonal communication.Of course, after reading this book, you will not be able to become more comfortable in social interactions all at once. Sometimes, you need to analyze specific problems based on some objective reasons.More importantly, when observing others, it is necessary to integrate various factors, analyze and judge, so that the results obtained can be more accurate.Therefore, this is also a process of slow learning, which requires continuous accumulation of experience in social practice.

In this process, reading some reference books will allow us to master the ability to know others more quickly, so as to help us truly know and understand others.

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