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Paul Ekman
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 15 Feb 1934
- Works
- 52
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 69
- Total plays
- 288
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Academic profile · OpenAlex
- Works
- 343
- Cited by
- 104,885
Research areas
Most cited works
- An argument for basic emotions1992 · 9,331 cit
- Facial Action Coding System1978 · 5,660 cit
- Constants across cultures in the face and emotion.1971 · 5,397 cit
- Pictures of Facial Affect1976 · 4,321 cit
- The Repertoire of Nonverbal Behavior: Categories, Origins, Usage, and Coding1969 · 3,243 cit
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Nonparametric Estimation from Incomplete Observations
· 1958 · cited 70,801x
- “Mini-mental state”
· 1975 · cited 68,251x
- Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support
· 2009 · cited 46,766x
- Cytoscape: A Software Environment for Integrated Models of Biomolecular Interaction Networks
· 2003 · cited 45,677x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,382x
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Key facts
- Born
- February 15, 1934 ( 1934-02-15 ) , Washington, D.C. , U.S.
- Died
- November 17, 2025 (2025-11-17) (aged 91) , San Francisco , California, U.S.
- Education
- University of Chicago , New York University ( BA ), Adelphi University ( MA , PhD )
- Known for
- Microexpressions , Lie to Me
- Spouse
- Mary Ann Mason
- Fields
- Psychology, anthropology
- Institutions
- San Francisco State University , UCSF
- Thesis
- Nonverbal and verbal behavior as reinforcing stimuli of opinion responses (1958)
- Doctoral advisor
- John Amsden Starkweather
- Website
- PaulEkman.com
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Encyclopedic overview
Paul Ekman (February 15, 1934 – November 17, 2025) was an American psychologist and professor at the University of California, San Francisco, who was a pioneer in the study of emotions and their relation to facial expressions. He was ranked 59th out of the 100 most eminent psychologists of the twentieth century in 2002 by the Review of General Psychology.
His empirical and theoretical work helped to restart the study of emotion and non-verbal communication in the field of psychology, and introduced new quantitative frameworks which researchers could use to do so. He also carried out important early work on the physiology of emotions.
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