FBI super mind-reading technique: teach you instant insight into people's hearts

Chapter 11 The Clues of Emotions (1)
How to see through the fog, knock on the door of your heart, and point to the essence,
It is the ability that everyone expects to acquire!

Discover the truth from expressions, break through defenses with the power of words,

make you invincible,
All this is not as difficult as we imagined.

Say "hello" to your face

When there are expressions, the corresponding emotions may not necessarily appear, but when there are real emotions, you must admit that there will be expressions.But why do some people have one thing on their face and another on their heart, but others can't detect it?That's because most people can't tell the difference between real and fake expressions.

Try doing this, smiling, frowning, and curling your lips in a mirror where you can see your entire face.You will find that when these facial expressions appear one by one, there is no corresponding emotion.That is, just because you smile doesn't mean you're happy, when you frown doesn't mean you're angry or worried, and just because you curl your lips doesn't mean you're feeling repulsive or dismissive.You have complete control over the movement of the facial muscles.

But if you come to the conclusion that emotions and expressions are not necessarily related, it is a big mistake.

Under the pressure of a series of social norms, everyone will wear a mask to live.For example, when you see someone you don't like, but you cannot offend him due to various pressures, you will smile no matter how disgusted you are.For example, you are obviously very angry, but you can't vent it in public, you can only pretend to be calm.In addition to the pressure of social norms, some people wear masks to cover their lies.For whatever reason, facial expressions only convey two messages, one you want others to know and one you don't want others to know.

So what is a true expression?What are fake emoticons?
To put it simply, true expressions are people's unconscious reactions, such as the happy brows when they hear good news, which are uncontrollable and without brain thinking. This is a true expression.In contrast, fake emoticons are intentionally fake expressions that are conscious responses, such as a child's smile at a parent when he longs for a toy.Whether it is a real expression or a fake expression, the basic emotions are the same, including happiness, anger, sadness, disgust, surprise, fear, contempt, etc.In many cases, these emotions do not appear alone, such as anger and disgust at the same time, surprise and fear at the same time.This creates a variety and complexity of facial expressions.Not only that, but a change or increase or decrease in emotion can also lead to a difference in facial expression.Such as from happy to sad, such as from impatient to furious.

The biggest difference between fake expressions and real expressions is the inconsistency between emotions and expressions.For example, when you hear a friend complaining when you are very happy, you must put on a regretful expression that matches your friend's mood.In fact, the ability to consciously control one's expression is not learned after growing up.When we were young children, we often heard such teachings from our parents: "When others greet you, you should smile and respond, it is polite", "When others give you things, you should show happiness", "Don't Always keep a straight face, which makes people uncomfortable."Over time, learning to control expressions and conceal true emotions has become a living habit and a rule of conduct for us, which is called the display rule.

Regardless of the complexity brought by the expression criteria, there are thousands of types of expressions alone, and some expressions do not even have corresponding words to describe. In addition, the degree of expression is different, the number of simultaneous appearances is different, or the time is different. And the difference in duration makes it difficult for human beings to distinguish the true and false expressions.

But this does not mean that there is nothing to do. After a lot of experimental research and practical experience, psychologist Paul Ekman summed up a set of "the most seductive facial clues", that is, micro-expressions.Through micro-expressions, people can more delicately read the authenticity of expressions.This analysis technique was adopted by the FBI in the early 20s and is still used today.

Microexpressions: The Most Seductive Facial Clues
Micro-expressions only exist for 1/25 of a second, and people will change to another expression in a short time.Because the duration is too short, it is difficult to catch it with the naked eye, but it is the most likely clue to facial expressions.

To trace the origin of the discovery of microexpressions, we have to mention Paul Ekman's experiments.

In the late 20s, Paul followed up a female patient with mental illness.The female patient applied to the doctor for discharge shortly after being hospitalized. She said that she had come out of the emotional haze and was eager to return to family life.Paul conducted an interview with her and videotaped the entire interview.

After the interview, Paul carefully studied the video in the observation room. He found that the female patient had a fleeting expression in addition to a few slight body movements.He slowed down the video and re-observed the expression that disappeared in an instant.It can be clearly seen from the screen that the female patient once had an extremely brief melancholy expression, which was soon covered by a smiling face.It takes about 1/25 of a second for this emoticon to appear and disappear.Paul freezes this expression and compares it with the next smiling face repeatedly, and finds that the female patient is lying. She deliberately pretends to be a bright smiling face in order to convince the doctor that she has recovered.In fact, her depressive symptoms were very obvious.Later, the female patient also confessed that she did deliberately deceive the medical staff in order to have a chance to commit suicide after going out.

Since then, Paul Ekman has added a pause switch every time he plays the tape with the interviewer, so that he can capture those fleeting micro-expressions at any time.

In fact, everyone can become an expert at capturing micro-expressions, just keep practicing.The exercise here is not simply memorizing some facial expressions. Of course, this is a basic exercise. If you want to become better and more sensitive, you'd better keep browsing the facial expressions photos.Experimental studies have shown that practitioners are usually able to capture micro-expressions and identify true and false expressions after seeing hundreds of faces.

muscles you can't control
The reason why micro-expressions are considered to be a real emotional response is that the reaction of human muscles in an instant cannot be controlled.

Since there will be micro-expressions, another problem has to be faced squarely, that is, some expressions are beyond the control of people.That is to say, some facial muscles have very strong autonomy and are difficult to control by consciousness.

In 1982, there was a report about the meeting between the Pope and the Polish leader Jaruzelski. It was described that the Pope kept smiling and shook hands with Jaruzelski with a "certain expression".This conveys an important message: the Pope has recognized Jaruzelski's rule in Poland.

This incident started with a strike at the Gdansk shipyard in Poland.In order to win a more relaxed political and living environment, the workers launched a general strike.At that time, in order to deter Poland, the Soviet Union conducted military exercises on the Polish border for several months.Many people worry that if the strike leader Walesa is too radical, it will cause dissatisfaction with the Soviet Union, leading to the Soviet Union directly sending troops to suppress it.After many contests, this matter finally ended with Walesa's compromise.With the support of the Soviet Union, the Polish army came forward to preside over the overall situation, and the military leader Jaruzelski became the supreme leader of the country.A year and a half later, Pope Paul II visited Poland.His appearance made the situation a bit delicate, and people speculated whether the Pope came to support the strike or Jaruzelski.As soon as the two of them met, people could already read everything from the pope's expression without speaking - the pope supported Jaruzelski.

Everyone knows that the Pope is a master at controlling expressions.He can clearly express some political signals through his expressions, although not all of them are sincere.But in the world, few people can freely control expressions like Paul II.

Among the human facial muscles, some muscles can be controlled freely, and some muscles are difficult to control.Now let's figure out those vital expressive muscles on the human face.

额肌
The frontal muscle is left-right symmetrical, located above the eyebrows, and belongs to the forehead.It affects the change and movement of the entire brow and eye section.Typically, as an adult's frontal muscles become tense, the eyebrows will raise, the forehead will crease, and the open eyes will grow larger.

Corrugator

The corrugator muscle is located on the inner side of the eyebrows. When it is relaxed, the eyebrows are stretched, and the skin between the eyebrows is smooth; when it is tense, it forms a raised cone-shaped muscle above the eyes, and a vertical fold is formed between the eyebrows.The corrugator can't move alone, and usually works in conjunction with the orbicularis oculi muscle.The corrugator muscle works when exposed to bright light, worried or angry.

There is a muscle similar to the corrugator supercilii in the eyebrows and eyes, and that is the procerus muscle located between the inner side of the eyebrows and the root of the nose.The tension of the procerus muscle will cause the inner side of the eyebrows to sag, and the frontalis muscle at the upper end of the nasion will produce horizontal folds.In the whole process of frowning, it also has its participation.

Levator palpebral muscle
The levator superior palpebrae muscle is small but vital in the upper eyelid.In its tense state, the upper eyelid lifts upward and the eye opens.When we open our eyes every morning, it is the levator palpebrae that is working.When the levator muscle of the upper eyelid is relaxed, the upper eyelid closes downward, forming an eye-closing movement.

Orbicularis oculi muscle
The movement of the levator eyelid muscle is always closely related to the orbicularis oculi muscle. The contraction and relaxation of the orbicularis oculi muscle directly affects the tension and relaxation of the levator eyelid muscle.The orbicularis oculi muscle is distributed around the eyes and is a crucial facial muscle area. There is a relationship of mutual influence and effect.

In our facial expressions, opening eyes, closing eyes, frowning, turning eyeballs, etc., must have the cooperation of the orbicularis oculi muscle.Not only that, but it also indirectly acts on the upturning of the lips and the contraction of the cheek muscles, which is the smile.

Observe the expression and use it to judge the true thoughts in the heart. The eyes and their surroundings are an important observation point.Every change of the eyes reflects the real-time changes in the heart of the person concerned to varying degrees.The orbicularis oculi muscle is the key to all this.

orbicularis oris
The orbicularis oris muscle surrounds the mouth 2 to 3 cm, is oblate, and is controlled by the facial nerve.Its role is to close the lips, chew and pronounce.When the orbicularis muscle is in a tense state, the lips will be closed, pursed, the corners of the mouth are turned up or down, and the lower lip is opened.The mouth, like the eyes, is a key part of observing facial expressions.

upper lip muscle
The main function of the levator lip muscle is to make the upper lip rise and evert, and cooperate with other muscles to form the deepening and rising of the nasolabial fold.It covers a relatively wide area, from the lower side of the orbicularis oculi muscle to the outer side of the upper lip, all belong to the levator labii muscle, with one piece on the left and right.

zygomaticus minor

The zygomaticus minor is a muscle on the outside of the cheekbones that extends to the outside of the upper lip.The main function of the zygomatic minor is to lift the upper lip and deepen the nasolabial fold.

platysma

The platysma starts from the corner of the mouth of the orbicularis oris and reaches the top of the chest. It covers a wide area and has a great influence.Its main function is to stretch the corners of the mouth to the sides and down, so that expressions such as downward corners of the mouth and curled lips appear.

lower lip muscle
The depressor labii muscle is located under the orbicularis oris, next to the depressor angle oris and mentalis muscles, and its main function is to pull down the lower lip.

颏肌
The mental muscle is located under the orbicularis oris muscle, and its main function is to control the protrusion and extension of the jaw.When the jaw bulges to form a bump with irregular folds on the surface, that's when the mentalis tense.Normally, people can control the mental muscle at will to make expressions of sadness, contempt, etc.

These facial expression muscles are commonly used muscle groups that can clearly see changes. Through understanding and research on them, we can know the meaning behind the expressions.

Among these muscles, some can be manipulated at will by consciousness, such as the mentalis muscle and the corrugator eyebrow muscle.But there is an important muscle area that cannot be controlled by consciousness at will, and that is the levator upper eyelid muscle.There is smooth muscle in the levator muscle of the upper eyelid. Smooth muscle used to be called involuntary muscle. As the name suggests, it is a muscle that cannot be controlled by consciousness. It is only controlled by the main nerve.Therefore, its shape change must be due to some kind of stimulus, such as fear, tension, pain, worry and so on.That's why the levator palpebrae is key in studies looking at facial expressions.

Liars tend to deliberately control facial muscles when concealing true emotions, but only muscles containing smooth muscles cannot be concealed, unless the liar is a person with a major nerve injury.

In addition to the smooth muscles that reveal a person's true emotions, they can also be seen through all the symmetrical muscles of the face.For example, when a person is forced to smile in a painful state, all the symmetrical muscles related to the smile will appear to be large on one side and small on the other side, which is called an asymmetrical expression.To discover asymmetric expressions, there is no better way than continuous training.

Through the understanding of muscles, it is not difficult to find that some expressions are difficult to control and cover up. The concealer may replace it with another expression in a short time, and may not find some uncontrollable expressions on his face at all.

A beautiful chef from Sweden spoke for a cooking magazine.In order to encourage everyone to eat pure natural and green food, the photographer specially found two potatoes that had just been dug out of the soil, and asked the beautiful chef to hold them in his hands and look happy.The potatoes are covered with mud and feel greasy in the hand, which makes the beautiful chef who loves cleanliness extremely uncomfortable.But for the smooth shooting, she could only force her face to smile.After the photo was taken, everyone thought it was perfect.But when the psychologist Feixus saw it, he pointed out the deception of the photo.He pointed out several micro-expressions of the beautiful chef in the photo, such as the wrinkled nose, raised cheeks, slightly turned upper lip, and deepened nasolabial folds. These expressions all express an emotion, which is disgust.

How to recognize people by face, some basic methods will be given later, so that you can learn to observe micro-expressions in a short time.But don't be superstitious about these methods, and don't rely on these methods to easily judge a person's personality, because to observe people's true emotions requires a combination of many skills, and you also need to have some understanding of the background of the person involved.

The Emotion of Lying and the Emotion of Being Suspected
To distinguish between these two emotions, you need to do a series of work in the early stage: understand the character of the person involved, so that you can know his way of doing things and reduce prejudice; emotions are different.Of course, most of the emotional characteristics are also based on the character.

People who are self-confident or arrogant don't usually feel afraid or guilty when they are suspected.People with cowardly personalities will feel fear when they are doubted. This is because they worry that they will be wronged, but they will not feel angry or guilty.People who have done wrong things and have always regretted it, when they are suspected of something they did not do, will stimulate their original guilt, but they will not have emotions such as anger, fear, or pain.In these cases, we must pay attention to screening in the process of catching lies.

Another important point is that whether the person concerned will show some emotions similar to lying after being suspected depends on the relationship between the person involved and the liar catcher.Next, an example is used to analyze this situation.

The relationship between father and son is very good. The father has never wronged his son, nor has he punished his son casually.Therefore, the son trusts his father very much, and he knows that his father will not let him be wronged.Therefore, when a son is under suspicion, he will not show fear, nervousness, or disappointment in front of his father, because he firmly believes that his father will not wrong him.

If the father has wronged his son more than once in the past, then when the son is suspected, even if he has been wronged, he will feel afraid, afraid of being punished innocently like before.

There is also a situation where the son has made mistakes and lied in the past, ruining his perfect image in his father's heart.Then even if he didn't do the thing, the son will feel fear when his father suspects him, fearing that his father will not trust him.

If these emotions cannot be ruled out, it is easy to cause unjust, false and wrongly decided cases.

In order to distinguish the emotions of a liar from those of an honest person, it is necessary to go through a serious investigation. It is a long process to know the difference between the behavior of the person involved when he is lying and the behavior when he is suspected.If the relationship between the liar catcher and the person involved is very good, and there is no precedent of being wronged or being wronged before, the trust between them should be very deep.Then the liar catcher will know the emotional characteristics of the person involved when lying, and the emotional characteristics of the person involved when they are suspected are relatively pure, and the final result will be easy to judge.

As the old saying goes, if you want to obtain accurate polygraph results, you must first understand the character, work style, and emotional characteristics of the person concerned, eliminate prejudice, and then make a judgment based on the four clues of micro-expressions, body language, slips of the tongue, and violent words.

happy voice

There are seven human emotions that are common all over the world, namely happiness, anger, sadness, surprise, fear, contempt and disgust.The facial expressions of these seven emotions are the same regardless of race or family background.It is very necessary to understand the generation and expression characteristics of these seven emotions.

The reason why happiness is discussed first is because it is the only positive emotion among the seven emotions, and it is also a relatively complicated emotion.So how exactly does happiness come about?From a psychological point of view, happiness comes from the reality that is higher than expected.Take for example what we did most often in childhood: Christmas is coming, we expressly hinted to our parents many times that we hope to get a limited edition car model, but our parents never tell us whether we will buy it or not.On Christmas Eve, we go to bed with anticipation and fear of disappointment, and open our eyes the next morning to open presents.Wow, awesome, it's that car!We happily rushed into the arms of our parents and kept thanking them.This is the emotion of happiness.Because we put question marks in our hearts and are ready to accept bad outcomes, we feel pleasure when the final truth exceeds our mental preparations.

(End of this chapter)