Decoding Faces

This book offers a short, handy summary of crucial facial coding tips from Famous Faces Decoded, along with sensible advice for handing a variety of situations at work or in one's personal life. Readers will find exercises to practice their new-found skills, plus 28 photos of expressions related to lists of the personality traits each suggests.

In this supplement to Famous Faces Decoded: A Guidebook for Reading Others, the focus shifts from examples involving the lives of celebrities to situations readers encounter in their daily lives. For every key facial coding emotion, Decoding Faces tells readers how the facial expressions covered in Famous Faces Decoded apply on the job, in dating, marriage, or handling one's children. Packed with advice while providing a helpful checklist of ways to practice reading others, this book steers readers toward becoming more effective in navigating interpersonal relationships.

Dan Hill, Ph.D., is the founder and president of Sensory Logic, Inc, which has done consulting work for over 50% of the world's top 100 B2C companies. He's a certified facial coder with 7 U.S. patents. Dan's media coverage includes TV appearances on ABC's "Good Morning America," NBC's "The Today Show," CNN, ESPN, Fox, MSNBC, PBS and Tennis Channel. He's been profiled on the front page of The New York Times and appeared in Advertising Age, Allure, Cosmopolitan, Fast Company, Forbes China, Inc., Politico, Time, USA Today and the Wall Street Journal, in addition to having been a columnist for Reuters. His essays were noted with commendation in the 1989, 1991, and 1994 editions of Best American Essays. Since his education at St. Olaf College, Oxford University, Brown University, and Rutgers University, he's given speeches and workshops in over 20 countries. Along with his wife, Karen Bernthal, he lives in St. Paul, Minnesota and Palm Desert, California.