The Theater of Emotion: From Real Life to the Staged Life

There is a theater that never closes. There are no curtains that rise or applause that close it. That theater is called human face. From the newborn's first cry to the last farewell look, life is represented on the surface of the face, or rather, on the face, as if each emotion were a piece in continuous debut. There is no break. There is no dress rehearsal. Emotion arises, the brain activates, the muscle contracts, and the expression reveals what thought has not yet been able to formulate in words, argues Prof. Freitas-Magalhães, the world's leading expert for Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology and the Encyclopedia of Human Behavior, by Elsevier, Oxford, in his pioneering and extraordinary book on the theater of emotion.