http://edition.cnn.com/2016/02/03/health...index.html
I'm surprised RBF is so similar to a normal, neutral face (6% emotion versus 3% emotion). I guess humans are tuned to identify very small differences. Here's an excerpt:
Mm hmm.
I'm surprised RBF is so similar to a normal, neutral face (6% emotion versus 3% emotion). I guess humans are tuned to identify very small differences. Here's an excerpt:
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Reading your face
Here's how the software works: Scientists pick a neutral-looking image of a person — one in which they aren't smiling — and run it through the FaceReader software. The software then registers the face and gives a percentage of underlying emotions it's picking up.
On an average reading, the software will register a face at 97% neutral. But there's about 3% of an underlying expression, Macbeth explained. That 3% is made of emotions that show traces of sadness, happiness or anger, for example.
"We see that people who have this RBF expression [have] double the amount of emotionality expressed," she said. Those afflicted with RBF may show a jump of trace emotions as high as 6% and most of the emotion expressed is of contempt: the feeling that something is worthless or deserving scorn.
Subtle facial expressions like a slightly pulled-back lip or squinting eyes are read as contempt, Macbeth said.
Celebrities with neutral faces are people like Jennifer Aniston and Blake Lively, Macbeth said. Although their faces are neutral, according to the software, people will register Aniston and Lively's faces as happy faces.
So what does this mean if you think you have RBF? Is there some hidden amount of contempt boiling up inside you? Some unresolved issues that you need to talk about? Macbeth said there's not a clear-cut answer just yet.
Cultural differences and gender bias may play a role in people's perception of RBF. "Eastern European people are seen as very stoic and not showing a lot of emotion and ... a lot of the people touted as having RBF are women," Macbeth said.
Mm hmm.
If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts. - Camille Paglia