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by simias 1935 days ago
72% is a very significant deviation from 50% though, I wasn't expecting such a result.

>The highest predictive power was afforded by head orientation (58%), followed by emotional expression (57%). Liberals tended to face the camera more directly, were more likely to express surprise, and less likely to express disgust.

Emotional expression makes some sense in hindsight but I wouldn't have though that head orientation would correlate. It's interesting to know how we betray ourselves with these minute details of body language.

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Though, these seems a bit odd; how many people are expressing _disgust_ in dating profiles?
Those categorizations are opposites on a continuum of various kinds of muscle tension, notably brow scrunch muscles. Surprise is literally brow up and jaw slack, disgust involves brow scrunch and lip tightening. Facial expressions also bleed through to our experienced emotions, so going around with face scrunched a lot will MAKE you more suspicious and disgusted with things.