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Subtle Expression Training Tool - SETT

Train yourself to see very smali facial movements that often appear in just one region of the face: the brows, eyelids, cheeks, nose or lips. These smali movements may occur when an emotion begins gradually. The person showing such a slight expression might not yet realize he or she is feeling an emotion, but you will know it.

Such subtle facial expressions can occur when people are deliberately trying to eliminate any sign of how they are feeling, but a tracę still remains. They may happen when emotions are repressed and the person showing the emotion is totally unaware of what he or she is feeling.

Usually you will be able to determine which it is - an emotion that is beginning gradually, a suppressed or repressed emotion - from the context, what has just happened and what you know about the person. Making constructive use of the information you will derive from reading subtle facial expressions is discussed in Paul Ekman's book Emotions Revealed with examples from the workplace, friendship and family life.

In Getting Acquainted you will learn the subtle signs for each emotion. Choose how quickly the subtle expressions flash before your eyes by pressing 9 for the slowest speed or 1 for the fastest. To begin try a slow speedsuchas 5.

After the expression is shown, dick on"?" to freeze the expression on the screen and read a brief description.

Then click the Next button. After you have seen all the expressions for one emotion, go on to the next.

When you are finished you might go through it again using a faster speed such as 3 or 2.

In ‘ Practice" the pictures are shown in a random order; you won't know which emotion is coming next or in which region of the face the expression will be shown.

You get two chances for each face you see, if you still didn’t judge it correctly, you will be shown the correct answer. Whenever you click start, you can begin again, and see the pictures in a different random order.

The program should start automatically. If "Autostart* is turned off, double-click "SETT Program Player.exe" to start the program.

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