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About The Ekman Group
Paul Ekman
For 32 years, Paul Ekman was a Professor of
Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of
California at San Francisco. He received his undergraduate education
at the University of Chicago and New York University. He received
his Ph.D. from Adelphi University in 1958 after spending a year
in clinical internship at the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute,
part of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
 He
served as chief psychologist in the U.S. Army, Fort Dix New Jersey
from 1958-1960. On discharge he returned to UCSF where he held
a three year postdoctoral research fellowship. He then initiated
his research program supported by grants from the National Institute
of Mental Health and the National Science Foundation, and the
Advanced Research Projects Agency of the DOD, loosely affiliated
with UCSF. In 1972 he was appointed Professor of Psychology at
UCSF.
His interests have focused on two separate but
related topics. He originally focused on ‘nonverbal’
behavior, and by the mid-60’s concentrated on the expression
and physiology of emotion. His second interest is interpersonal
deception.
His many honors have included the Distinguished
Scientific Contribution Award of the American Psychological Association
in 1991, and an honorary doctor of humane letters from the University
of Chicago in 1994. Dr. Ekman retired from UCSF in 2004.
He currently continues to consult on research
and training related to emotion and deception.
John Yuille
John Yuille was born in Montreal
and received his university education at McGill University and
the University of Western Ontario.
Following completion of his Ph.D.
in 1967 he spent a year at McGill as a National Research Council
of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow. He joined the faculty of the University
of British Columbia in 1968. He spent a year as a visiting professor
at the University of Salzburg, Austria (1974-75) and a year at
the Family Life Development Division of Cornell University (1990-91).
As of January 1, 2007 he will be Professor Emeritus at the University
of British Columbia.
 His
area of specialization is forensic psychology, the application
of psychology to the criminal-justice system. His particular interest
is in the memory of victims, witnesses and suspects and on interviewing
techniques. His work has focused on child abuse, trauma and memory,
and on the assessment of the witness’ credibility.
For more than twenty-five years
he has collaborated with psychologists, social workers, prosecutors
and police in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and
Germany to develop standardized procedures for investigative interviews
and for credibility assessment.
He has conducted over 160 workshops
on these techniques for police, social workers, psychologists,
prosecutors and judges. He regularly serves as a consultant to
police, law enforcement, prosecutors and defense attorneys in
cases of child abuse, sexual assault and murder. He has provided
expert evidence in scores of trials in criminal, civil and family
court in both Canada and the United States.
He has been an active researcher
for over 35 years. He has authored or co-authored more than 100
journal articles and chapters in edited volumes and seven books
and monographs. He presented or co-authored more than 250 presentations
to professional meetings.
He is a co-founder and the director
of The Ekman Group – Training Division (TEG-TD).
John Yarborough
Sergeant John Yarbrough was a sworn
peace officer for nearly 30 years, specializing in homicide investigations
for 16 years. He served as his department’s criminal profiler
for 8 years, and was certified in criminal investigative profiling
and crime scene analysis by the Federal Bureau of Investigation
(FBI) and the International Criminal Investigative Analysis Fellowship
(ICIAF) in 1995.
 Sergeant
Yarbrough conducted research on homicides of the elderly and was
an advisor for a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department
training film entitled Predators of the Elderly. He also conducted
research on “police-assisted suicide” and was a co-author
of a published article entitled Suicide By Cop (Annals of Emergency
Medicine, December 1998). Also in 1998, Sergeant Yarbrough served
on a technical working group that developed and published Crime
Scene Investigation: A Guide for Law Enforcement for the National
Institute of Justice (NIJ) in Washington, D.C.
He coauthored Crime Specific Consultation:
A Law Enforcement And Psychology Partnership, an article published
by the California Psychological Association (June 2000)personality,
evaluating truthfulness, and interviewing.
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