The facial expression of a person is the movement of the muscles located on the face. It is one of the forms of manifestation of emotions.
Mimic expressions and gestures, for most people, are understandable and without special deeper into this area of knowledge. It is thanks to this that we well read the facial expressions of a person's face, regardless of his ethnicity and language barrier.
Our facial expression is a manifestation of the nature, so it is extremely difficult to forge or falsify it. In China, there is even a theater, in which the transfer of the essence of the characters occurs with the help of masks with the image of emotions. The study of human mimicry is a separate area of scientific knowledge, whose name is physiognomy. It is focused on the knowledge of the type of personality, its psychosomatic state of health and its mental qualities, characteristics and skills.
In order to correctly interpret the physiognomic characteristics of people around you need to know some features of the manifestation of feelings. Negative emotions, such as: anger, rage, irritation, it is easier to see on the left side of the face, because it is she who mostly conveys the emotional state. Positive emotions in their manifestation are obvious, so they can be seen on the right side of the face.
The psychology of facial expressions and gestures
Each internal state corresponds to a certain direction of movement of the facial muscles. Often manifested, they received the name of the corresponding emotions and feelings.
How do you know from the facial expressions of a person that he now feels?
- Fear. This emotional manifestation gives out primarily eyebrows. During the experience of fear, they are slightly elevated and folded over the bridge of the nose.
- Anger. A person who is angry, wrinkles appear on his forehead, his lips and teeth are tightly compressed, his gaze is lowered down.
- Disgust. This feeling can be calculated by a wrinkled nose, lowered eyebrows and an outstanding lower lip.
- Sadness. A sad person is given eyes, a sight is directed to the floor, the movement of the pupils is hindered, the corners of the lips are lowered, the eyebrows are brought over the bridge of the nose.
The main manifestation of positive emotions is a smile, but in some cases it can become an expression of very different feelings or simply become a mask of courtesy. A person has an inner feeling that allows one to distinguish a sincere manifestation of joy, from a false one. Psychologists say that the whole point is that when a person smiles sincerely, he blinks his eyes for a fraction of a second. In case your interlocutor smiles fake, this does not happen and somewhere on the subconscious level we understand that this person is not honest with us and pretends to be.
Joy, carelessness, mockery, deceit, can manifest itself in the form of laughter. By the way a person laughs you can determine the following:
- Laughter with ecstasy is a manifestation of soulfulness, joy, openness of a person.
- The laughter with the predominance of the "e" sound is a manifestation of audacity, envy. The more pronounced the "e" sound the more pronounced contempt and malevolence.
- The laughter with the predominance of the "and" sound indicates the presence of hidden motives in the laughing person. Such laughter is typical for girls.
- The laughter with the predominance of the "y" sound is a sign of artificiality and is characteristic of people who are preoccupied with prejudice.
- "Curved" smile or a smile with the lowered corners of the lips indicates the presence in a person of internal contradictions.
- A "sweet" smile is characteristic of hypocrites and sentimental personalities, for people who love to flatter.
A high level of knowledge in this area will help you to separate sincere emotions, from trivial pretense and to remove masks of hypocrisy from dishonest people.