Paul Ekman

Paul Ekman (February 15, 1934 – November 17, 2025) was an American psychologist and researcher. He was a professor emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco. He was known for his works about the study of emotions and their relation to facial expressions. He was named 59th out of the 100 most important psychologists of the twentieth century in 2002 by the Review of General Psychology.Haggbloom, S. J. et al. (2002). "The 100 Most Eminent Psychologists of the 20th Century" . Review of General Psychology. Vol. 6, No. 2, 139–15. . Haggbloom and his team combined three quantitative variables: citations in professional journals, citations in textbooks, and nominations in a survey given to members of the Association for Psychological Science, with three qualitative variables (converted to quantitative scores): National Academy of Sciences (NAS) membership, American Psychological Association (APA) President and/or recipient of the APA Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award, and surname used as an eponym. Then the list was rank ordered. Ekman was #59. His life's work is the inspiration for the crime drama series Lie to Me.

Ekman died on November 17, 2025 at his home in San Francisco, California at the age of 91.

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Other websites

 Official site
 A biography from Lifeboat Foundation site
 The Naked Face, Gladwell.com
 Interview (History Channel transcript)
 Greater Good Magazine: Interview between Ekman and daughter Eve on parent-child trust

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