Leonardo DiCaprio
So many people confuse confidence with arrogance. It’s one of the most frustrating things I see when it comes to facial expressions and understanding people. Labeling a confident person as arrogant is a big injustice in my world.
How do you determine the difference? Is Leo DiCaprio arrogant or confident here? Can we determine it from a photo?
Pierrick Fedrigo of France gives us a genuine smile of happiness after winning the the 16th stage of the Tour de France cycling race today…
and I think a person of any language around the globe would understand this as an expression of victory… 🙂
SCORE!!
Botox: Does it impair empathy?
By Wray Herbert
Here is an interesting article on Botox about how it has affected Hollywood, but also, and more importantly, Botox affects our ability to process and feel emotion.
What effect do you think Botox will have on detecting lies? Its something we must consider!
There have been so many cases lately that are emotionally gut-wrenching, I thought it would be nice to take a look at a photo of happiness.
Read moreIn Dr. Paul Ekman’s research on facial expressions, he found that when he mimicked negative emotions like frowning, he started to feel down, and when he mimicked happy emotions, he started to feel better. If my memory serves me right, he talks about it in his book, Emotions Revealed.
Dr. David Matsumoto, another leading expert on facial expressions, writes about a related topic in National Geographic magazine, (in their Spanish edition, he translates it for you) about how our emotions are “bio-psycho-social reactions”. It’s fascinating reading how our emotions are connected to our biological responses!
So, now that you see a happy face, do you feel better? I hope so! If not, maybe her smile didn’t make you smile? (edited).
I needed a pick me up and I suspect you could use one, too.
“Hub lab writing the book on face-reading,” from the Boston Globe.
Nelson said that his research has revealed that by adulthood, people’s abilities to read faces are fairly established and they can only learn more through deliberate learning, much like being taught a foreign language.
“By adulthood, the window is not permanently closed, but with age, it’s increasingly difficult to learn new abilities,’’ said Nelson, 56, a high-energy researcher who travels frequently to talk about his work.
What do you think?
Thanks to my Boston reader for this article!
