http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/interpreting-facial-expressions/ Sat, 18 May 2013 14:35:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/interpreting-facial-expressions/#comment-12447 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:16:21 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/?p=1795#comment-12447 An entry about facial expression decoding on the Situationist blog? Really? What approach to interpreting human behavior could be less situationist?

]]> http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/interpreting-facial-expressions/#comment-12445 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 04:11:31 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/?p=1795#comment-12445 [...] For the rest of the article, click here. For a related post, see “The Facial Obviousness of Lying.” For a recent post on the interpretation of presidential candidates’ facial expressions, click here. [...]

]]> http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/interpreting-facial-expressions/#comment-12337 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:49:57 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/?p=1795#comment-12337 Facial expressions can doubtless provide insight into a person’s emotional state, but these interpretations seem almost immediately skewed by the bias of the interpreter. How often a person who speaks of hope should flash a genuine smile, for example, is more a matter of opinion than it is of interpreting facial expression. And “smugness” is a particularly negative and highly subjective way to interpret a smirk. Still, simple observations such as McCain smiling when he’s not really happy, or how quickly he angers can help observers spot a candidate’s true position amid all the spin. Interesting way to read a person, but I’d always consider the reader.

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