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Faceism – Judgements based on faces

• deleted 11y ago
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• jondubois 11y ago
  That's interesting. I do think that the 'mood' of your face is important. I've struggled with this issue when I was in school. I looked kind of shy/nerdy when I was younger. The emotional feedback which I got from people reinforced my tendency of being shy. I felt like people were struggling to 'figure me out' and this made social interactions unpleasant. Now I don't care much about how people respond. I probably come across as extroverted. I like to think that I fixed this using sheer willpower, but maybe it's also because my face matured over time.
• circlefavshape 11y ago
  A million years of human evolution has gone into making snap judgements about people, and it strikes me that the snap judgements probably actually have some value
• shard 11y ago
  The grid of faces in the middle of the article are supposed to have "neutral expressions", but it's clear that some faces have a slight smile and some a slight frown. That has to cause some bias in people's responses.