Ekman's work on facial expressions had its starting point in the work of psychologist Silvan Tomkins.

Ekman's work, particularly its applications to airport security via the Transportation Security Administration's " Screening Passengers by Observation Techniques " ( SPOT ) program, has been criticized for not having been subjected to controlled scientific tests.

However, Ekman's TSA work was funded by DARPA.

Other criticisms of Ekman's work are based on experimental and naturalistic studies by several other emotion psychologists who, in the last two decades, did not find evidence in support of discrete emotions and discrete facial expression, thus questioning Ekman's proposed taxonomy.

Officially retired from stage and acting work in 2003, although he played leading parts in his wife Marie-Louise Ekman's two films " Asta Nilssons sällskap " ( 2005 ) och " Pingvinresan " ( 2005 ).

* An examination of events that precede emotions: Ekman's finding that voluntarily making one of the universal facial expressions can generate the physiology and some of the subjective experience of emotion provided some difficulty for some of the earlier theoretical conceptualizations of experiencing emotions.

Robert Plutchik agreed with Ekman's biologically driven but developed the " wheel of emotions ", suggesting eight primary emotions grouped on a positive or negative basis: joy versus sadness ; anger versus fear ; trust versus distrust ; and surprise versus anticipation.

Ekman's legacy has been colored to a great extent by his political maneuvering as well as the scandal leading to his resignation, which do not do justice to his result-oriented policies during an anxious period when no lasting political majority could be formed.

Facial expressions using Ekman's encoding scheme were not statistically significant.

He also concluded that there were no universals in these kinesic displays-a claim disproved by Paul Ekman's analysis of universals in facial expression.

Facial expressions using Ekman's encoding scheme were not statistically significant.

Ekman's traditional attitude of thriftiness made it difficult for him to accept the costly economic-stimulation programs which involved heavy economic measures.

Upon losing power to Carl Gustav Ekman's pro-prohibition Liberals in 1926, Hansson worked from the opposition bench and, although heading what was to remain the largest party of the Riksdag to date, faced a major setback upon cooperating with the Communists in the infamous election of 1928.

Ekman's interest in nonverbal communication lead to his first publication in 1957, describing how difficult it was to develop ways of empirically measuring nonverbal behaviour.

Ekman's infamous test of emotion recognition was the Pictures of Facial Affect ( POFA ) stimulus set published in 1976.

As part of their defense department procedures, Ekman's approach was assessed using the military blue and red teams: the blue team was charged to use Ekman's techniques ; the red team was charged with defeating the blue team.

His models partly rely on Paul Ekman's method of analyzing human emotion and microexpressions.

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Significantly, Huxley also worked for a time in the 1920s at the technologically advanced Brunner and Mond chemical plant in Billingham, Teesside, and the most recent introduction to his famous science fiction novel Brave New World ( 1932 ) states that this experience of " an ordered universe in a world of planless incoherence " was one source for the novel.

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Along with Miss Marple, Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-lived characters, appearing in 33 novels, one play, and more than 50 short stories published between 1920 and 1975 and set in the same era.

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