The Human Face

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Culture, Evolution, History and Medicine

   1. Front Matter

      Pages xv-xv

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   2. Foreign Faces: A Voyage to the Land of EEPICA

      • Robert J. Barrett, Mary Katsikitis

      Pages 1-28

   3. Human Face in Biological Anthropology: Craniometry, Evolution and Forensic Identification

      • Maciej Henneberg, Ellie Simpson, Carl Stephan

      Pages 29-48

   4. The Face in Medicine and Psychology: A Conceptual History

      • German E. Berrios

      Pages 49-62

   5. Neurology of Human Facial Expression

      • Jason Warren, Philip Thompson

      Pages 63-96

3. Measurement and Meaning

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97

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   2. FACEM: The Facial Expression Measurement System

      • Mary Katsikitis

      Pages 99-118

   3. Facial Affect Recognition Deficits in Schizophrenia: A Case for Applying Facial Measurement Techniques

      • Patrick Johnston, Vaughan Carr

      Pages 119-130

   4. Context-Analysis of Facial-Affective Behavior in Clinical Populations

      • Jörg Merten

      Pages 131-147

   5. Causes and Reasons in Failures to Perceive Fearful Faces

      • Monique de Bonis

      Pages 149-167

   6. Recognition of Emotion in Specific Populations: Compensation, Deficit or Specific (Dis)Abilities?

      • Harald G. Wallbott

      Pages 169-187

   7. Facial Expression and the Self-Report of Pain by Children

      • Carl L. von Baeyer, G. David Champion, Belinda Goodenough

      Pages 189-214

   8. What Facial Activity Can and Cannot Tell us About Emotions

      • Arvid Kappas

      Pages 215-234

   9. Facial Expressions as Indicators of “Functional” and “Dysfunctional” Emotional Processes

      • Susanne Kaiser

      Pages 235-253

   10. Getting to Know Your Patient: How Facial Expression Can Help Reveal True Emotion

       • Mark G. Frank

       Pages 255-283

4. Back Matter

   Pages 285-289

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James W. Pennebaker The University of Texas at Austin At first glance, a scientific book on the face doesn't make a great deal of sense. After all, the face is not a biological unit that falls into a specific medical specialty. By the same token, it is not part of a of a specific clear functional system that falls within the purview subdiscipline of psychology, philosophy, sociology, or any other traditional area. It seems that the only organizing principle of the face is that all humans have one and that it is central to the experience of being human. As a social stimulus, the face can signal emotions, personality, sex, physical and mental health, social status, age, and aspects of our thoughts, intentions, and our inner selves. At various points in our lives, we spend a tremendous amount of time and money for cosmetics, cleansers, medicines, and, occasionally, surgery to enhance our face. In the same way that a normative, symmetrical face can attract praise and even adoration, damage to the face through birth defects, disease, or injury is almost always stigmatizing. Our faces, then, are social advertisements for who we are.

• Emotion
• cognition
• evolution
• neurology
• psychology
• schizophrenia

• Australian Psychological Society, Melbourne, Australia

  Mary Katsikitis

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