Wallace V. Friesen
Research psychologist
Wallace V. Friesen is a psychologist who studied emotion and worked for many years with Paul Ekman. He is an author of Unmasking the Face.
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About Wallace V. Friesen
Wallace V. Friesen held posts as a psychology lecturer and research psychologist at the University of California at San Francisco. There he spent many years as a co-investigator with Paul Ekman. He later joined the University of Kentucky, where he studied emotion in old age. He has co-authored many articles on emotions and longevity in journals including the American Psychologist, Psychiatry, and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. With Ekman, Friesen also produced the Facial Action Coding System (1978), an atlas with photographs and film strips for measuring and scoring facial behavior. His book in our catalog is Unmasking the Face.