The Art of Reading Minds by Henrik Fexeus

Author:Henrik Fexeus
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group

Some analysis suggests that happily married couples smile and use their eye muscles, while unhappily married couples don’t use them. There are also reports of lower blood pressure and more of a feeling of happiness in people who smile a lot with these muscles. It could be that the outer orbicularis oculi needs to be triggered to activate some pleasure centers in the brain, and anybody who only smiles with her mouth would be missing out on this.

We can spot fake smiles incredibly quickly. When I train people to perceive quick changes in facial expressions, I use a sequence of images to simulate microexpressions. One of these images always confuses the people taking the test. The idea is that the microexpression is supposed to represent a happy person. But the person in the photo isn’t a great actor, and the joy is only there in the mouth, not in the eyes. Despite the picture being displayed so briefly that the only change you notice consciously is a big smiling mouth, most people get the feeling something’s not right. But they have no idea what it is. They don’t realize they’ve just reacted to a dishonest facial expression until later, when they study the picture at their leisure.

So if you want to play it safe when you’re faking joy, you have to crack a truly huge smile. Then, almost all the changes the eye muscle takes care of occur just from the width of the smile, since it pushes the cheeks up and makes the skin bunch up under the eyes. This will narrow the eyes and make wrinkles show on the side of them. It makes it a lot more difficult to tell if the smile is genuine or not. The only clue will be the eyebrows and the skin under it, which are lowered by the outer eye muscle in a genuine smile.

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