Quotes: happiness

Unmasking the Face, Paul Ekman, chapter 8: happiness, p.99-113

"Happiness is a positive emotion". 

"When pain stops, you are usually happy."

"In discussing each of the emotions, we have suggested that childhood experience leave their imprint, that personality may be shown in how each emotion is experienced." 

Quotes:Anger

Unmasking the Face, Paul Ekman, chapter 7, p.78-98

"People differ not only in terms of what makes them angry or what they do when they are anger but also in terms of how long it takes them to become angry."

"But when the blast of what blows in out ears,

Then imitate the action of the tiger:

Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,

Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;

Now set the teeth, and stretch the nostril wide,

Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spirit

To his full height! On, on, you noblest English." 

Quotes: disgust

'Unmasking the Face, Paul Ekman, Chapter 6"

"Disgust is a feeling of aversion."

"Contempt is a close relative of disgust, but it differs in some ways."

"Disgust usually involves getting-rid-of and getting-away-from responses. Removing the object or oneself from the object is the goal." 

Quotes: fear

Unmasking the Face, Paul Ekman, chapter 5: fear, p47-65 

 "People fear harm" 

 "Fear varies in its intensity from apprehension to terror"

"You fear any event, person, animal, thing, or idea that appears dangerous." 

Quotes: surprise

Unmasking the Face, Paul Ekman, chapter 4 (p34-p46)

'Almost anything can be surprising, provided it is either unexpected or misexpected. A sight, sound, smell, taste, or touch can be surprising.' 

 'You can never be surprised for long, unless the surprising event unfolds new surprising elements. It does't liner.'  

'Surprise varies in intensity from mild to extreme, depending upon the event itself' 

Quotes: Introduction