“Smile,” the photographer kept directing me. “I am,” I kept replying. “Look at the girls and smile.” “I am. How could I not be smiling?” On the way home, our five-year-old foster daughter asked why Daddy can’t smile. I smiled. Or so I thought. My wife finally explained, “If Daddy…
Tag: facial expressions
I recently spent some time studying microexpressions. The theory is that most humans, including some of the best liars and manipulators, briefly signal their true emotions via expressions that last only fractions of second. These microexpressions are involuntary. My interest in this was triggered by a special on the human…