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Comment author: shminux 03 December 2014 10:52:34PM 3 points [-]

Being geeky and probably mildly Aspie, I've always had trouble recognizing non-verbal signaling as well as using it appropriately. I am quite sure that this has negatively impacted my career to a significant degree, only partially mitigated by academic excellence. I'd happily trade a few courses, like philosophy, history and drafting, for Human Signalling 101. Of course, no such course exists anywhere in the world, for all I know. A couple of other interpersonal relationship courses would have been nice, too. Maybe a Dale Carnegie one.

Comment author: buybuydandavis 04 December 2014 12:30:54AM *  3 points [-]

no such course exists anywhere in the world, for all I know

Paul Ekman did a lot of work on the facial expression of emotions, and has some online training for the detection of emotion from facial expressions. It's been on the list of things I might shell out money for one day. I think there are multiple sites with his stuff due to licensing issues. Seems particularly Aspie appropriate.

Comment author: Metus 04 December 2014 12:45:51AM 1 point [-]

Link?

Comment author: Capla 04 December 2014 01:55:41AM 2 points [-]
Comment author: buybuydandavis 04 December 2014 09:40:56PM *  1 point [-]

For online training:

And:
http://www.ekmaninternational.com/paul-ekman-international-plc-home/training-courses/online-training.aspx

And:
http://ealinstitute.com/online-training.html

I'm not sure which is his current site, but there may be price differentials between them, so I'd check them all.