01274nas a2200229   4500000000100000008004100001260007600042653002400118653002300142653001500165653002200180100002000202700001900222700002100241700003100262245009500293300001200388490000700400520060900407022001401016020001401030       2013                            d  c06/2013bSociedad Española para el Estudio de la Ansiedad y el Estrés10aEmotion Recognition10aFacial Expressions10apsychology10avisual perception1 aDavid Matsumoto1 aHyi Sung Hwang1 aRafael M. López1 aMiguel Ángel Pérez-Nieto00aReading facial expressions of emotions: Basic research on emotions recognition improvement  a121-1290 v193 aIn this article we review two important discoveries of psychology of emotion, the universality of facial expressions of emotion and the existence of microexpressions and how they have been used as a basis for the development of training and improving recognition ability programs. We discuss the most important aspects of their application to the real world in various professional and personal spheres. Finally we conclude that, despite the low rate of accuracy in recognizing microexpressions by the majority of the people, there are tools to develop the ability to recognize facial emotion expression.  a1134-7937  a2174-0437