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Mind-reading failures… aren’t always as obvious and spectacular as other breakdowns in rapid cognition… They are subtle and complex and surprisingly common…
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…the face is an enormously rich source of information about emotion.
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…the information on our face is not just a signal of what is going on inside our mind. In a certain sense, it is what is going on inside our mind.
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Emotions can also start on the face. The face is not a secondary billboard for our internal feelings. It is an equal partner in the emotional process.
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Many facial expressions can be made voluntarily… But our faces are also governed by a separate, involuntary system that makes expressions that we have no conscious control over.
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We can all mind-read effortlessly and automatically because the clues we need to make sense of someone or some social situation are right there on the faces of those in front of us.
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…when people talk, we listen to their words and watch their eyes in order to pick up on all those expressive nuances…
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All of us gravitate toward things that mean something to us, and for most of us, that’s people. – Ami Klin
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Our mind, faced with a life-threatening situation, drastically limits the range and amount of information that we have to deal with.
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Sound and memory and broader social understanding are sacrificed in favor of heightened awareness of the threat directly in front of us.
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