The Face is Who We Are

The face is not merely where emotion is expressed; it is where the brain makes part of itself visible, argues Prof. Freitas-Magalhães, considered the world’s leading expert in facial expression for Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology and the Encyclopedia of Human Behavior, by Elsevier, Oxford, in this pioneering new book on the science of the human face. In The Face Is Who We Are, Freitas-Magalhães brings together the Facial Brain Theory, Survival Triangle Theory, Face-Mirror Theory, Neurocultural Theory, Neuromicroexpressions, and F-M FACS 6.0 to propose an integrated understanding of the relationship between the brain, face, emotion, survival, culture, and human identity. The book advances a fundamental idea: the face does not simply communicate who we are - it is part of the neurobiological architecture of who we are.