Institute for the Analysis of Facial Behavior (Gnosis Facialis)
Links:
Micromomentary Expressions Test
ERT The Emotion Recognition Test (Merten, 2001)
About Gnosis Facialis
In the institute teachers and researchers in the realm of facial behavior offer courses, teaching and software to learn the detailled recognition and interpretation of facial behavior.
Teaching and research is based on the famous system
developped by Paul Ekman and Wallace Friesen the The Facial Action
Coding System (FACS). The system ascribes every movement observable in
the
face to the respective muscular action by using a sophisticated
catalogue of criteria. The interpretation of the
facial movements as facial expressions of emotions is of major interest
to many people and is based on a dictionary of Paul Ekman, which is
refined by a group of researchers organized in the International
Society for Facial Expression.