I’m recently read Daniel Goleman’s “Social Intelligence” where he mentioned the Micro Expression Training Tool, short METT, from Paul Ekmann.

Micro Expressions are signs of real emotions that flash involuntary over one’s face.

They last only split seconds before our consciousness takes over and shows the emotion it finds adequate. For example an employee who hates his would show his hate and disgust in a micro expression just for a short time before he puts on a false smile.

Wired ran in 2003 a great article about this topic.

Now what the METT does it shows you a face with an micro expression for a split second and then you must specify what emotion it was. People who train with METT report some improvement in recognizing this micro expressions.

The short version of the training costs $49, the long $69.

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