What You Can Read From One's Facial Expression

Recently, I have been watching a movie series called Lie to Me. Before the production of the drama series, a study has been conducted among a group of psychologist to study the facial expression and gestures of oneself. According to that them, there is always a subconscious and a conscious state of mind among the humans. A person can control oneself not to show any marks or signs of telling lies in his or her conscious state of mind. However, he or she cannot really control their subconscious state of mind. So, whenever someone is telling a lie, he or she will definitely subconsciously do something such as rubbing their nose, touching their ears etc.  In this movie series called Lie to Me, their main study is to study the subconscious mind state of a human. And from there, they can actually tell whether the victims or the criminals are telling lies.

In the movie series called Lie to Me, a gifted psychologist name Dr Cal Lightman can actually detect truth by analyzing a person’s face, body, tone of voice and speech. According to Dr Cal Lightman, whenever a person is having a genuine smile, the movement of muscle from the lips will orbit the eyes making the eyes become smaller. Beside, whenever a person is showing a genuine smile, he or she will always have pushed up cheeks and crow feet’s wrinkles’ at the end of their eyes.

When someone shows fear, their eyebrows will be raised and pulled together. The upper eyelids will raised and the lower eyelids somehow show tense. Besides, the lips are slightly stretched horizontally back to the ears.

When someone is in the anger state, you can tell by reading his facial expression. His eyebrows together with his eyelids will move downward. He has a very fierce and strict eye glare. He will have a narrowing lip to show that he is angry.

 Therefore, by analyzing the facial expressions, you can actually read someone feelings, from hidden resentment to jealousy. For example, when someone shrugs one shoulder, rotates their hand or raises their lower lip, we can tell from their expression whether they are telling lies or not.

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