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

Chapter 14 The Clues of Emotions (4)
When we were watching some large awards ceremonies, some stars who won important awards, holding trophies in their hands and giving acceptance speeches, before opening their mouths, such a mouth shape appeared first, it was obviously not sadness, but that it was true that they felt that they had worked so hard to get this award not easy.

helpless sadness

After the grief, I finally understand that I can't do anything about the negative results, leaving only deep helplessness.Helpless sadness is different from crying sadness. The energy will not be consumed instantly, but will be lost slowly.

Because of the decrease in the degree of sadness, the full sadness features gradually disappeared, leaving only the most obvious tangled brows.Affected by the frontal muscle and the corrugator eyebrow muscle, the brow will rise slightly and wrinkle slightly. Although it is slight, it can still be seen at a glance that it is not the same as usual.

There is no obvious change in the eye area, which is more of a normal state, sometimes slightly larger than usual, and may also be slightly smaller.Therefore, it is impossible to judge by looking at the eyes alone.

Similar to the condition of the eyes, the mouth also tends to be normal without any obvious changes.Because there is no need to breathe rapidly, the mouth is also closed, which means "I don't really want to talk now, it's better to let me be quiet for a while".However, the depressor oris and mentalis muscles will still contract, but to a lesser extent, so the drooping of the corners of the mouth will be very subtle and difficult to detect.

From these analyses, it is not difficult to see that no matter what degree of sadness, the eyebrows will undergo more obvious changes from beginning to end.It can be said that the eyebrows are depressed, furrowed, raised, and wavy, which are the micro-expression characteristics of sadness.However, in the emotion of fear, the eyebrows will also change in this way, but the degree of opening of the eyes is different, and the eyes are larger in fear.

Once a well-known actress was interviewed by a TV station, and the reporter asked her how her life was after divorce.All the audience saw her smiling and saying, that's great, it might be a good thing to say goodbye to a marriage that is not suitable for you.But just when she said "It's good", her eyebrows were lowered, her brows were raised and furrowed, and her mouth was turned away quickly, which is a typical sad expression.Although she quickly changed to a smile, the sadness of this lost marriage was still evident in her heart.

surprised secret

A quick look up, wide eyes, and slightly parted mouth is the classic expression of surprise, and one shared by both humans and animals.If you have raised a dog before and are careful enough, you will find that once there is any noise outside the door, the dog will immediately raise its head, prick up its ears, and turn its ears to the source of the sound to hear what the sound is, which is beneficial to itself and its owner. no threat.

Let's look at a conversation first:
A: The ×× of a certain department passed away.

B: What? (looks up quickly, eyes wide open, mouth slightly open) Isn't he under 30 years old?

This is the emotion of surprise, the first reaction when suddenly receiving stimulus information, which contains many thoughts: Is it true?what happened?Was it an illness or an accident?What should I do?Will my work be affected by this?Will the company hire new people to share the work?Surprise then quickly evolves into other emotions, regret, worry, sadness.

In nature, once there is a sign of danger, animals will stand still instantly, raise their heads, and mobilize all available organs to capture information: smell, sound, and image.The reason why you have to stand still and look up is because most of your senses are in your head, and you can see farther and hear more clearly when you raise your head.Is there any danger?Where does the danger come from?Are the opponents in groups?How long will it take for the other party to run wildly here?Is it safe here?Where is it safer to go?Is the battle assured of victory?
A lot of information needs to be answered within 1 second, so the time for surprise is only 1 second.If the time is longer, I am afraid it will be too late to escape.To save life and territory, you must respond in a short time.

The same is true for human beings. In primitive society, hunting is the main survival skill of human beings.If you can't react quickly, you may become food for wild animals.Over time, it becomes an instinctive reaction.When encountering a sudden stimulus, people will stop all activities in their hands, raise their heads, face the stimulus source, and quickly find a way to deal with it.

However, with the advancement of society, many expressions of full surprise have been derived, and people can make surprised expressions without looking up or even turning their backs to the stimulus.This is because the life worry of being attacked by wild beasts in the primitive period no longer exists, the danger is reduced, and the sensitivity to stimuli is naturally reduced.

Like animals, the duration of the surprised expression in humans is also very short, no more than 1 second.To be exact, the genuinely visceral look of surprise is only 1/4 of a second.If it is longer than 1/4 second, the person involved deliberately set aside time to let others know his surprise, but it will not exceed 1 second.Due to the short time, there is a lot of information to be processed, so the senses of the whole body must be mobilized to help the brain think.Because of this, the energy of the whole body is consumed in a short time, and the nervous system will reduce other movements in order to reduce the burden, so body language will be reduced or even suspended, so as to supply energy to the brain.From another perspective, the freeze frame is also to give yourself a little time to judge whether the stimulus source will affect you, and how to act next.

It is worth mentioning that if a person's surprised expression lasts longer than 1 second, it must be fake.There is a homicide case in the United States. The suspect is a young man who disappeared after committing the crime. FBI agents found the suspect's father and asked him if he knew the whereabouts of the suspect.His father insisted that he had already severed his father-son relationship with the suspect, and stopped contacting him a few years ago.When the detective mentioned the fact that the suspect had murdered, his father made a classic expression of surprise: he stopped what he was doing, turned his head to face the detective, opened his mouth slightly, opened his eyes wide, and raised his eyebrows.He wanted to use this expression to tell the detective that he really had never met the suspect and knew nothing about what he had committed.However, his surprised expression lasted far longer than 1 second. FBI agents believed that his surprised expression was faked, which meant that he had already met the suspect and knew what the suspect had committed.Sure enough, the detectives followed the father and eventually found the suspect's hiding place.

The stimulus that can trigger surprise is an unexpected change in what the person cares about the most.The so-called unexpected refers to the possibility that the parties did not expect.The so-called most concerned must be the subjective expectation of the parties involved.The more you look forward to, the more exciting the changes will be to the parties involved.For example, hearing the good news that has been waiting for a long time will turn into surprise; hearing the bad news of the death of a loved one will turn into panic, which will soon turn into sadness.

As mentioned before, a full surprise expression raises the eyebrows, widens the eyes, and opens the mouth.Here we need to analyze why there are these physiological reactions.

Eyebrows raised, eyes widened

Due to the contraction of the frontalis muscle, the eyebrows will be greatly raised, and at the same time, the contraction of the levator palpebrae muscle will lift the upper eyelid, causing the eyes to open wide. In this way, the surprised expression on the upper half of the face is completed.

Eyes are widened to reveal more of the eyeball, which is to allow more light to enter the eye and see more clearly.In a low-light environment, to see something clearly, you have to try to keep your eyes open.Animals raise their heads and widen their eyes when they hear something disturbing, in order to see the source of the stimulus clearly and judge the impact it will cause.The same is true for human beings. Opening the eyes can obtain more and clearer visual information, which is convenient for judging and responding.The upward lifting of the eyebrows is to assist the opening of the eyes, because the levator palpebrae muscle alone cannot make the eyes open to the maximum.You can try it by trying to open your eyes wide without moving your eyebrows.You will find that as long as the eyes are widened to your satisfaction, the eyebrows must be lifted upwards.

open mouth
The mouth is opened wide to accommodate a quick inhalation.Because it is impossible to judge whether the stimulation source has a positive impact, there will be an inhalation action to reserve energy for coping.Once it is judged to be a negative influence, the stored energy is used to fight or flee.If it is a positive influence, the stored energy supports the subject to jump up or give a hug.

It is precisely because the opening of the mouth is only for inhalation, so few muscles are involved, and only the jaw needs to be opened naturally.On the other hand, the air inhaled with the mouth open is more sufficient than the air inhaled by the nose with the mouth closed, and the energy is much greater. Therefore, when a sudden stimulus is received, the mouth will open to allow a sufficient amount of air to enter the mouth.

Full surprise is easy to recognize, but in today's society, full surprise is hard to see except for great sorrow and joy.We are all used to concealing our true emotions, and we are worried that people will see through too much exposure, so when we are suddenly stimulated, the surprised expression will also be restrained.Another important reason is that with the development of information in today's society, it is difficult for people to be surprised.

The most common surprises we see in our daily life are generally mild surprises and moderate surprises.

When the bidding meeting was held, the marketing executives of the three companies were bidding.During this process, the director of Company A answered a phone call.Within a few seconds of listening, he showed an expression with raised eyebrows, wide eyes, and closed mouth, which lasted for 1 second.Immediately afterwards, he glanced at the director of company B, and immediately returned to normal.This is a slightly surprised expression, which shows that he heard some amazing news from the phone, and he immediately glanced at the director of company B, which proved that the news was related to company B.Not long after hanging up the phone, the director of company A applied to the bidding committee for a thorough investigation of company B's bidding, because he had just received news that someone had reported that company B had stolen bid prices from other companies by illegal means.At this time, the person in charge of the bidding company and the director of Company C present all had expressions of surprise with raised eyebrows, wide eyes, and slightly opened mouth, which was moderately surprised.

It's impractical to put on a full surprised face in such a public setting. In order not to show his surprise, the director of Company A closed his lips to prevent his emotions from leaking, but he still raised his eyebrows and opened his eyes unconsciously, and even glanced at the director of Company B.The surprised expressions of the person in charge of the bidding company and the director of Company C were moderately surprised. They didn't need to hide it, so they were more thorough.But the mouth is slightly opened, which proves that the stimulation source did not bring them much stimulation, and they are obviously used to this kind of thing.

It can be seen that the degree of mouth closure is directly proportional to the degree of surprise.Similarly, the eyebrows and eyes change according to the degree of surprise.In moderate surprise, the raising of the eyebrows and the widening of the eyes can still be clearly seen.But in the slight surprise, the change of the eyebrows is not so obvious, and even no change can be seen, only the upper eyelid is lifted, so the change of the eyes is very small.This expression proves that the person involved is trying to control the surprise emotion, and it may also be that the stimulus source is not enough.

From these analyses, we can draw a conclusion that the microexpression characteristic of surprise is the lifting of the upper eyelid.Because the upper eyelid changes throughout the full to light surprise expression, it is the only tissue that changes consistently.When a person is surprised, the eyebrows may not be raised, the mouth may not be opened, but the upper eyelids must be raised.At the same time, the inhalation is also going on all the time.It's just that in the surprised expression with the mouth closed, the job of inhaling quickly was handed over to the nose.Although the breathing range is not large, there must be an inhalation action.

Surprise is the most easily overlooked one of the seven major emotions, not only because it lasts for a short time, but also because it does not exist alone at a high rate, and it often turns into other emotions at the end.It is a transitional mood, also known as a neutral mood.Among the seven emotions, anger, sadness, disgust, fear, and contempt are all negative emotions, and happiness is a positive emotion. Only surprise cannot be classified into any of them.

Surprise turns to surprise when the news is good; it turns to sadness or anger when it is bad; and surprise turns to anger when it is bad news. Disgust or contempt; surprise turns to fear when threatened.

In 1 second, the brain has processed all the information, so it will evolve into other emotions next.

surprise turns into joy
The raised eyebrows and the raised upper eyelids are the expression features of surprise. After 1 second, knowing that the result of the development of the matter is far higher than one's subjective expectations, it will turn into joy.An open mouth, upturned mouth corners, and deepened nasolabial folds are all hallmarks of a smile.

Fans often have this expression when watching a football game.The weaker team ends up winning the game, and the fans will be elated after a short surprise, which is what we often call surprise.

It’s a surprise when someone who said hello earlier that you can’t make it back on your birthday suddenly appears on your birthday; it’s a surprise when someone you thought doesn’t like you suddenly confesses to you; it’s a surprise when you receive something from someone else that you’ve liked for a long time , is a surprise; winning the jackpot is a surprise.But sometimes surprises are not so easy to make, and it may backfire.

Still take the birthday as an example. You carefully planned a birthday party for your friend. In order to surprise him, you specially created all kinds of troubles for him on this day.Enough troubles are justifiable, once you create troubles that he thinks are more difficult, then your plan may be ruined.For example, if you pretend to lose a document, you think it is insignificant, but in his opinion it is the result of hard work.When the results are destroyed by others, the first thing that happens is anger.Even if you told him at the end that the file was not lost, it was just a good-natured joke, he probably wouldn't appreciate it.If surprises are not handled properly, they can easily turn into surprises without joy.

Therefore, if you want to surprise someone, you must understand his personality preferences, ways of doing things and psychological needs, and you must not make the mistake of being self-righteous and turning the surprise into a shock.

surprise turns to disgust
The brow is furrowed under the action of the corrugator supercilii, and the nasolabial fold deepens, which is an expression characteristic of disgust.The upper eyelid is lifted, but there is a slight crease in the upper eyelid as it meets the furrowed, depressed brow, but this is still an expression of surprise.

A highly acclaimed celebrity was interviewed. Before the reporters asked some official questions, he answered them fluently and with a calm demeanor.But when the reporter asked: "Have you secretly divorced your wife last month?" He paused for less than a second, his upper eyelids were slightly raised, and his eyebrows and mouth remained unchanged. He was slightly surprised, and the subtext was: "How did this get out? How did you know?" Soon, his expression changed, his brows were wrinkled, and a slight nasolabial fold appeared, which is typical disgust. The subtext at this time is: " How do you ask such a question? I don't want to answer." It can be judged from this that his initial surprise turned into disgust.

surprise turned to anger

Surprise turns to anger when the stimulus turns out to be threatening.At this time, although the upper eyelid tried to lift up, it encountered the depressed eyebrows, forming obvious folds, and the whole eye looked triangular.A furrowed brow shows negative emotion toward the stimulus.The depressed eyebrows combined with the raised upper eyelids create a typical angry expression.

Surprise turns to anger usually when the situation is out of control and the person feels threatened.

We often see this kind of expression in some large-scale public events, when the host or a certain leader speaks on the stage, there is a sudden discordant commotion below.People on the stage will pause briefly, and after about 1 second, their eyebrows will be lowered and furrowed. Maybe the mouth does not change much, but the anger after surprise is already very obvious.

surprise turns to fear
Surprise turns to fear when the threat is powerful enough to be harmed.

Try to think about it, if you are playing in the zoo and suddenly find a beast running out, you will be stunned for a moment, and after a pause of about 1 second, you will immediately realize that your life will be threatened, you will become terrified, and then your blood will rush to the legs, preparing for escape.

We also often see such scenes in TV programs: after the suspect is discovered by the police, he will stop there first, sometimes not even for a second, and after realizing that he may be arrested, he will show a look of fear , and prepare to flee.Some economic criminals will also show this expression after being exposed.

Don't be afraid, drive away fear and you will win

Fear, like anger, is born of threats.The difference is that the threat that leads to anger is not as high as the threat that leads to fear.Fear-inducing threats usually involve personal safety and life, and people think that they will be injured or killed, so they do not have the confidence to fight, and the biggest reaction is to run away.If the pressure caused by the threat is too great, the person may give up even fleeing.

The natural world is a world where the weak are preyed on by the strong, and each creature is a link in the food chain, facing death all the time.Therefore, the probability of occurrence of fear is much higher than that of anger.

Also because the threat is too great, people will have obvious physiological changes: rapid heartbeat or sudden arrest, sweating, and erect hair.If the threat can be escaped by running away, the greatest response to fear is to run away.But if the threat is deemed to be powerless to resist, even if it is futile to escape, the body will become stiff or paralyzed, the power will be lost instantly, and even death will result.

However, full of fear is rare nowadays, because the development of human society has eliminated many safety hazards, and only when facing some natural and man-made disasters, people will have full fear, such as: walking on the road, being robbed Kidnapped by bandits; walking at night at night, being entangled by lawbreakers; encountered a fire?Most of the time, the emotion of fear is not so strong, just the fear of some possible damage, for example, children are afraid of injections and infusions, and adults are afraid of surgery.

(End of this chapter)