Curious about Gaydar’s reliability, an experiment asked volunteers to take a look at close-cropped head shots and guess whether each face belong to someone who is gay, le*****ian, or straight. Impressively, most people could identify sexual orientation in just a split-second thin –slice.
The more motivated you are to know someone’s orientation, the better your intuition. People with the sharpest gaydar are gay men and le*****ians, naturally, and ovulating woman. Surprisingly, “The more we ask people to think about their choices before they make them, the worse they are,” . “When they don’t go with their gut, they fail.
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Stress and laugh lines linger even when the face is still. It also solves the mystery of why old married couples grow to look like each other; for decades, they’ve been mirroring each other’s facial expressions.
AGGRESSION and CRIMINALITY
Under the influence of hormone, men’s facial width increases in relation to height (width-height ratio or WHR), independent to body size. WHR is the distance measured from cheekbone to cheekbone versus the distance between the top of the lip and midbrow. A high WHR is 1.9 or above. Bill Clinton’s is 2.07; John Edward’s 2.38; and Richard Nixon’s 2.02; comparing to John Lemon’s 1.63 and George Washinton’s, 1.65.
Someone wanted to know if a higher WHR might be a biomarker for an aggression, which is also related to high testosterone levels. They asked volunteers to guess from photos of white Caucasian faces which one were the fighting type.
