# Microexpressions

Skill · Soft Skills and Communication

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/microexpressions

Microexpressions are brief, involuntary facial expressions that reveal a person's true emotions, often lasting less than half a second and difficult to consciously suppress. They are studied by psychologists, law enforcement professionals, and negotiators to detect concealed emotions or deception, building on research popularized by psychologist Paul Ekman. Training in reading microexpressions is used in fields like security screening, therapy, and interpersonal communication.

Related skills: [Active Listening](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/active-listening), [Emotional Intelligence](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/emotional-intelligence), [Nonverbal Communication](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/nonverbal-communication), [Body Language](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/body-language)

## Open roles requiring Microexpressions (0)

None of the roles we have read name this skill yet. A large share of the visible corpus has not been parsed for skills, so this is at least as likely to be our backlog as the market's verdict.