Face analogy

[ajazali]

Re: Face analogy

@redvelvet

They can in the sense that the attitude/emotions u frequently can, over time, leave their mark on your face. For example, someone who has experienced long-term grief…that sadness reflect in their eyes and other features. Similarly someone who is often worried, angry, or arrogant…these emotions/attitudes can reflect themselves in not only facial features, but body language, tone of voice, etc.
So, to an extent it makes sense. Majority of the messages we send are nonverbal.

If you think our behaviors and our perceptions about those behaviors are dictated by circumstance and environment we got then how come several people with similar features exhibit similar pattern of attitude toward others? Sadness reflection, worried, angry, or arrogant is simple thing, anyone can get that and that does not modify our facial features.

I don’t think you can treat facial features as a guarantee because they are cases where some can appear to be nice/trustworthy and turn out to be otherwise. I guess that’s where “don’t judge a book by it’s cover” would apply. However, experts in body language would be better at detecting subtle things like a difference between a genuine smile and a fake one…whether one is being honest or fibbing.

I am not saying that it is an absolute fact that people with similar facial features always show similar attitude/emotions but there are things they share in common and then there are exceptions too. I would try to explain those exceptions.

What I find more interesting is the topic of vibes…as in sometimes no matter how nice a person appears…you just get this unexplainable vibe that you don’t quite trust them or like them or connect with them the way others around you do. Or maybe there’s nothing mysterious about this at all and it’s simply a matter of some people picking up on subtleties better than others.

Yes, there are exceptions and we do not know all of them. For example, analogy of one feature can negate the analogy of other feature. Might be, some behaviors could be identified by adding up analogies of two or more features.