Decoding Faces: Applications in Your Life
By Dan Hill
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Dan Hill
Dan Hill dropped out of high school to pursue a career in music. In 1978, at the age of 23, he had his first smash hit, “Sometimes When We Touch,” one of the most covered pop songs of all time. His remarkable career includes hit songs in a variety of styles from country to pop to R&B. His awards include a Grammy, five Junos, four platinum and two gold albums. He has written and produced songs for Céline Dion, Alan Jackson and Britney Spears, and has licensed his songs for countless Hollywood movies. Hill recently wrote a cover story for Maclean’s about the trials and tribulations of being the father of a mixed-race teenager. He is a frequent musical guest on Stuart McLean’s cross-country Vinyl Café tours.
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Decoding Faces - Dan Hill
Preface
Everything is in the face wrote Cicero. It’s the home of four of our five senses and the easiest and surest barometer of a person’s beauty, health, and emotions. As I know from twenty years of using eye tracking and facial coding in business to gauge people’s responses to TV spots, almost 70% of what we gaze at and respond to emotionally while watching a TV commercial is the faces of people on screen, and yet in our actual encounters with people how often we fail to notice what we see.
In this little book, a quick supplement to Famous Faces Decoded: A Guidebook for Reading Others, the goal is to bring that book’s insights home for you. Keep your eye on the ball is a sports cliché. In daily life, the equivalent isn’t merely looking at—but rather observing closely—the faces of both those you interact with frequently as well as people you may be meeting for the first time. Then you can find more reliable clues than words alone could ever provide.
In the moment, you might be trying to understanding somebody’s feelings so as to react most wisely. But ultimately the tips that follow should also give you assistance in recognizing people’s personalities and, armed with that knowledge, how best to adapt to their characteristic nature over time. Whiff at a golf ball, tennis ball or baseball and, unless you play the sport professionally, it’s no big deal. You just go on with your day. When the situation involves your boss or significant other, however, you could be living with the consequences of misreading their emotions for longer than you’d like! To help lessen that risk, I encourage you to read on.
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emotions
Anger
A Quick Recap
From Famous Faces Decoded, remember that in simplest terms anger is about wanting to be in control and shows in people’s expressions by the way their faces tighten. The essence of anger is to hit, an instinct that enables us to fight off threats or dismantle barriers to progress. This dominant, assertive emotion appears in nine different ways on people’s faces. When anger emerges on its own, look for eyelids that tighten; a jutting chin; and lips that either narrow and grow taut; press together hard; or part in creating an open-mouth growl. In combination with other emotions, anger can also be signaled by eyebrows that lower and pull together; eyes that go wide; a curling upper lip; or an upside-down smile.
These are the four forms of anger:
Thunderstorm—This intense and very negative version of anger adheres closely to anger’s hit instinct. With this form, the lips press together hard (creating a bulge below the middle of the lower lip) or else the lips part as if creating a horizontal funnel.
Battle Ready—After the Thunderstorm form, this is the other, most assertive version of anger. Look for narrowed eyes, tight lower eyelids, and eyebrows that have knitted together and are lowering the boom
at the same time that there’s a vertical crease between them.
Concentration—Somebody who’s focused and intent on solving a problem will exhibit this less adversarial form of anger. Here, too, expect lowered eyebrows knit together. But in this case, the other element will be lips pressed together firmly, rather than harshly.
Golden Blend—This form mixes anger with mild happiness. It combines backbone with warmth, offering a smile most commonly accompanied by either lightly pressed lips or slightly narrowed eyes.
Applying Those Four Forms
In your own life, when might you see those four forms of anger? How might you best react to them, given what causes people to feel anger?
Thunderstorm: If you’re advising a client, this look surely means trouble. Your counsel is already being rejected,