Microexpressions are brief, involuntary facial expressions that reveal a person's true emotions, even when they are trying to conceal how they feel. They last less than 1/15th of a second. Microexpressions show universal emotions like disgust, anger, fear, sadness, happiness, contempt and surprise. They were first discovered in the 1960s but studying psychotherapy videos frame-by-frame. Tools now exist to help train people to recognize microexpressions by providing video feedback, and can be used to detect deception since some emotions cannot be hidden from microexpressions even if other signals like polygraph tests are inconclusive.