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Paul Ekman

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Paul Ekman

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American evolutionary and social psychologist (1934-2025)

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Paul Ekman (1934–2025) was an American psychologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and non-fiction writer. Born in Washington, D.C., he was educated at New York University and Adelphi University. His professional career began in 1972, and he served as a professor at the University of California, San Francisco. Ekman’s fields of work included psychology, nonverbal communication, emotion, and metre. He was influenced by Charles Darwin.

Ekman authored numerous works, including *Emotion in the human face: guide-lines for research and an integration of findings*, *Handbook of methods in nonverbal behavior research*, *Unmasking the Face*, and *The Science Of On-Camera Acting*. His research has been cited extensively, with a cited by count of 104,885 and an h index of 112. He died in San Francisco in 2025.

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Person · Open Library

Born
15 Feb 1934
Works
52

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
NL

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
69
Total plays
288

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Academic profile · OpenAlex

112h-index
Works
343
Cited by
104,885

Research areas

PsychologySocial psychologyCognitive psychologyComputer scienceCommunication

Most cited works

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Nonparametric Estimation from Incomplete Observations

    · 1958 · cited 70,801x

  2. “Mini-mental state”

    · 1975 · cited 68,251x

  3. Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support

    · 2009 · cited 46,766x

  4. Cytoscape: A Software Environment for Integrated Models of Biomolecular Interaction Networks

    · 2003 · cited 45,677x

  5. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

    · 2020 · cited 36,382x

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Key facts

Born
February 15, 1934 ( 1934-02-15 ) , Washington, D.C. , U.S.
Died
November 17, 2025 (2025-11-17) (aged 91) , San Francisco , California, U.S.
Education
University of Chicago , New York University ( BA ), Adelphi University ( MA , PhD )
Known for
Microexpressions , Lie to Me
Spouse
Mary Ann Mason
Fields
Psychology, anthropology
Institutions
San Francisco State University , UCSF
Thesis
Nonverbal and verbal behavior as reinforcing stimuli of opinion responses (1958)
Doctoral advisor
John Amsden Starkweather
Website
PaulEkman.com

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Encyclopedic overview

Paul Ekman (February 15, 1934 – November 17, 2025) was an American psychologist and professor at the University of California, San Francisco, who was a pioneer in the study of emotions and their relation to facial expressions. He was ranked 59th out of the 100 most eminent psychologists of the twentieth century in 2002 by the Review of General Psychology.

His empirical and theoretical work helped to restart the study of emotion and non-verbal communication in the field of psychology, and introduced new quantitative frameworks which researchers could use to do so. He also carried out important early work on the physiology of emotions.

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