New Microexpression Training

Our partners Humintell have just released two new online microexpression training tools, MiX Professional and MiX Elite.

The MiX™ Professional consists of:

• An Expression Basics section which features a brief overview of facial expressions such as: the functions of emotions, emotions as reactions to events, and the difference between spontaneous and deliberate emotions
• 7 brand new instructional and review videos from the frontal view that teach you the characteristics of the basic emotions of: anger, disgust, fear, surprise, contempt, happiness and sadness
• An additional information page for each of the seven basic emotions that features: universal triggers of the emotion, universal functions of the emotion, FACS codes and associated nonverbal behaviors.
• A confusions instructional video section to help delineate between similar expressions such as fear and surprise and anger and contempt.
• A practice section with 56 images which feature individuals from ONLY the frontal view (pictured)
• A post test to see how far you’ve come. Receive over 80% with the images flashing at you at a speed of 1/5 of a second or less and receive a certificate of completion. You can take the post test as many times as you’d like.

In addition, MiX™ Professional is set at a  speed of 100 milli seconds, or 1/10th of a second. MiX™ training features over 65 images from six ethnic groups equally representing males and females.

The MiX™ Elite consists of:

• An Expression Basics section which features a brief overview of facial expressions such as: the functions of emotions, emotions as reactions to events, and the difference between spontaneous and deliberate emotions
• 7 brand new instructional and review videos from the frontal view that teach you the characteristics of the basic emotions of: anger, disgust, fear, surprise, contempt, happiness and sadness
• 7 brand new instructional and review videos from the profile view that teach you the characteristics of the basic emotions of: anger, disgust, fear, surprise, contempt, happiness and sadness
• 7 brand new instructional and review videos from the 3/4 side view that teach you the characteristics of the basic emotions of: anger, disgust, fear, surprise, contempt, happiness and sadness
• A confusions instructional video section to help delineate between similar expressions such as fear and surprise and anger and contempt.
• A practice section with 56 images which feature individuals from the frontal, profile and 3/4 side view (pictured)
• A post test to see how far you’ve come. Receive over 80% with the images flashing at you at a speed of 1/5 of a second or less and receive a certificate of completion. You can take the post test as many times as you’d like.

In addition, MiX™ Elite is set at a speed of 66 milli seconds, or 1/16th of a second. MiX™ Elite training features over 65 images from six ethnic groups equally representing males and females.

Details of these and other microexpression training tools are available here.