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Facial Action Coding System

The Facial Action Coding System (FACS) is a system to taxonomize human facial movements by their appearance on the face, based on a system originally developed by a Swedish anatomist named Carl-Herman Hjortsjö. It was later adopted by Paul Ekman and Wallace V. Friesen, and published in 1978. Ekman, Friesen, and Joseph C. Hager published a significant…

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Facial Action Coding System → Archived, Carl-Herman Hjortsjö, Coding System, FACS, FACSDetails, FACSdownload, FACSPaul Ekman's Facial Action, Man's, More, Människans, Paul Ekman's, Swedish, The, Wayback Machine, Yorker
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Facial Action Coding System → Baby FACS, Dr, FACS, Harriet Oster, Infants, It, Young Children

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Facial Action Coding Systemrelated to Baby FACSBaby FACS0.60section
Facial Action Coding Systemrelated to Baby FACSInfants0.60section
Facial Action Coding Systemrelated to Baby FACSYoung Children0.60section
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Facial Action Coding Systemrelated to Baby FACSHarriet Oster0.60section
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Facial Action Coding Systemrelated to External linksFACSPaul Ekman's Facial Action0.60section
Facial Action Coding Systemrelated to External linksCoding System0.60section
Facial Action Coding Systemrelated to External linksFACS0.60section
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