Posted by llrrrpp on July 20, 2006, at 16:59:26
In reply to Re: New discovery » Meri-Tuuli, posted by curtm on July 20, 2006, at 16:39:09
> No I have an interesting concept. Facial features are drastically affected by emotions. So are emotions affected by facial features??
You betcha! Paul Ekman @ Stanford U. has been studying this stuff his entire career. if you prevent the body from expressing an emotion (i.e. if you take a beta blocker that prevents a racing heart) you may not experience fear with the same intensity. If you hold a pencil clenched between your teeth, and hear a joke, you will later recall it as being funnier than people who held the pencil as one would hold a drinking straw. That's because the clenching engages the "smiling" muscles more than the other pencil hold does.
If I try your packing tape thing, I might rip off all my eyebrow hairs. It could look pretty bad, now that I think about it. but at least I wouldn't get too angry at you, or at myself.
(neutral faced, currently. trying to avoid a stressful crowd situation at the airport! yikes!)
-ll
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