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Nature 452, 413 (27 March 2008) | doi:10.1038/452413a; Published online 26 March 2008

Exhibition: How faces share feelings

Jascha Hoffman1

EXHIBIT REVIEWEDThe Search for Universals in Human Emotion: Photographs from the New Guinea Expedition

Forty years ago, psychologist Paul Ekman took his camera to the island of New Guinea to photograph the faces of the South Fore people. He wanted to prove that the expressions on their faces did not mirror social convention but were universal displays of human emotion.

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