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The_Dude
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10 Oct 2011, 3:15 pm

I found this Guardian article really interesting so..;

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oc ... xpressions

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We all have an inherent bias towards assuming that we can discern a person's inner mental state simply by observing them. Whether it's coining new theories on what the Mona Lisa was thinking, or wondering about the stranger opposite us on the tube, we possess an endless capacity to speculate on a person's character, thoughts, and motivations based on the slender evidence of a facial expression. The eyes, it is said, are windows to the soul. They are not. They are organs for converting light into electro-magnetic impulses.


I suppose I'm putting this together with chapter one of "A Field Guide to Earthlings" which I read the other day (and then ordered the book) - it was all about these "facile intuitions about what other people are thinking".

Not organised my thoughts on this enough yet to comment more atm :?



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10 Oct 2011, 3:26 pm

http://www.chiofearth.com/article4.htm

"Your face, my thane, is as a book where
Men may read strange matters."
--William Shakespeare
“Macbeth”

Human beings possess three bodies. First, there is the physical body, which you can see and is tangible. It is solid and has a shape, a color and a texture. The second and third bodies are the mental and the spiritual which are intangible and merge with the physical body. Our true nature begins to take on a physical form in our face. It is where our emotions and our state of health are first revealed. And, as Shakespeare pointed out in his play Macbeth: “There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.” For the face is truly an opened book.



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10 Oct 2011, 3:38 pm

I have a lot of trouble reading faces and people probably have a lot of trouble reading mine since I usually have a flat affect.



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10 Oct 2011, 8:10 pm

I actually have no problem reading people's face, i am like an expert in it, tho my own face is mostly like BLUHH EMPTY, you can't see whats going on inside of me at all.


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