Certainly. What I was getting at was the idea that it is possible to read faces quite accurately & that this is something we do usually below the level of consciousness so we just sense it as intuition (i.e. "he gives me the creeps").Elizabeth Isabelle wrote:There's a difference between the vacant, has an IQ not much above some of the mentally retarded clients I used to take care of and the inhuman psychopath.
This website shows you photographs & asks you to decide whether the subject is an inventor of a programming language or a serial killer.
This website shows people smiling & asks you to decide whether their smiles are real or faked.
I agree that you look much the same in all of the pictures you posted but I think this is something particular about you. The way I see it is your face shows great fear/anger & sadness & this dominates any expression you may impose on it. This isn't true for all people. In fact it's possible for actors to be entirely convincing in becoming a character who is different from themselves. I'm not an actor (I just play one on the internet) but about 20 years ago I took a picture of myself every day at noon for 100 days. If you looked at all the photos together you wouldn't even think they were all of the same person.As far as the kid in the video trying to look dumb, there is only so much difference a person can make. I just did an example round, just for you. This morning, here I am not trying to look like anything as a baseline shot, here I am trying to look like I'm paying attention for one end of the intentional spectrum, and here I am trying to look vacant (the other end of the spectrum of intent). In comparison, here is one of the shots I took when people were talking about putting actual faces up as our avatars. I was dead tired after a streak of insomnia, and didn't want to post that because I thought I looked too slutty. Only so much vacancy can be faked, and the rest reflects an empty head.
I should add that if I did that today, there would probably be a lot more consistency of appearance. I think younger people are more varied in their expressions.
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