Alan J. Fridlund - Human Facial Expression: An Evolutionary View

I began this book at the University of Pennsylvania in 1986, where I met several scholars who shook the scales from my eyes and forced me to take a fresh look at the face and what it said about ourselves. They have become good friends and supportive colleagues:

Avery Gilbert taught me what behavioral ecology is all about, and helped me understand how to extend an evolutionary view of displays to human faces;

Paul Rozin shared his knowledge of biology and cultural anthropology, and showed me that scholarship was compatible with humor;

John Sabini kept badgering me to clarify my concepts and would have been guilty of sophistry were he not always right;

and John Smith, who with kindness and a twinkle in his eye, shared his far-reaching vision of contemporary ethology.

Many other colleagues along the way have been kind and generous in sharing their work and their thinking. They include: Bernard Apfelbaum, Janet Beavin Bavelas, Don Brown, Joseph Campos, Nicole Chovil, Leda Cosmides, Robert DeRubeis, Phoebe Ellsworth, Alan Fiske, Stephen Fowler, Gerald Ginsburg, Henry Gleitman, Barbara Ivins, Adam Kendon, Richard Lazarus, Arnold Leiman, George Mandler, Peter Marler, Miles Patterson, David Premack, Gary Schwartz, Robert Seyfarth, Jay Shulkin, Craig Smith, Donald Symons, John Tooby, Philip Walker, and David Williams. I also thank Paul Ekman, Carroll Izard, and Gary Schwartz, who started me thinking about faces and supported and encouraged me early on.

Dick Jennings did me great kindness in publishing a prcis of this work in Biological Psychology. Marc Boggs was wonderfully gracious in remembering an old acquaintance. Nikki Fine, Steven Martin, and Sharon Hartley at Academic Press were wise and patient editors, who always knew what to do.

Jim Russell generously allowed me to include his masterful chapter on cross-cultural studies of faces, and provided many, many helpful comments. The editorial staff at InfoWorld, especially Carla Mathews, Jeff Senna, and Anne Kaliczak, were immensely supportive in providing me the software to do the illustrations.

Finally, my deepest thanks to my wife, partner, and colleague, Amy Jaffey, who endured my authors monomania and returned love, support, canny intellectual criticism, and the best son a father could haveand to Jason, who napped just enough to let me finish.

To all these people, thanks.

Alan J. Fridlund