Could it be that a guilty person can be identified by just a glance? Perhaps how your face responds to an inquisitive look could be beyond your control.
The spontaneous tendency to synchronize our facial expressions with those of others is often termed emotional contagion.
New research has identified that how we react to others facial cues is not due to a transmittance to your thinking brain but is directly transmitted to your reflexive brain. ie the inner reptile.
Emotional contagion occurs also when the triggering stimulus cannot be consciously perceived.
How much we do is pure instinct? We love to pride ourselves on our mental independence when in reality we cannot control ourselves at all. Our lives pre-destined at birth to be a mish mash of thoughtless actions and responses to outside influences. I long ago gave up any pretence of having control over my body. So now I wander the world with my erections and spontaneous flatulence, unhindered by any social mores. I have no shame because I know reflexively it is a false emotion. Likewise any ideas of emotional independence.
This shows that the patients did not simply imitate the motor pattern observed in the stimuli, but resonated to their affective meaning.
Can we use this to control others? To me this is the fundamental question raised by this research. And here at Xenox Institute you can be damn sure we will be bending all our mental faculties to answering it. For by using the instinctive control a mere 'look' can gain over an individual we could perhaps ultimately gain a great tool for good. Or evil.
Whichever I feel like on the day.
The GooGooMuck
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Posit an alternative to this reality? There is none, as your death will surely prove. |
Ricardovitz
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I dern't know 'bout none of this hippy-dippy nevermind. I tell you this, boys and girls, I done seen thar look of evil on a woman's face before. Yessiree, I did. I looked her real good in thar eyes wilst she was fornicatin, and Lord be my Witness, that thar was one evil look....she done let thar Devil inside and was all betwixed over it. Fornicatin ain't no good - it's how thar Devil take hold of a good woman and turn her into a rabbid demon. |
Ricardovitz
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What woman? What you mean "what women"??? Ain't you red thar news article? It's talkin 'bout syncronizin facial expressions.....with them other emotional type folks. They's talkin bout losing control over yer body...."erections" and cooter fart'n. THIS HERE IS A TALKIN BOUT NONE OTHER THAN FORNICATION!!! That thar's when a man and a gal git it on with thar humpin and squeelin nekid boddies and such.....bumpin thar uglies. Ain't you never saw when thar Devil git hold of a woman's body when she be fornicatin? It's dern right demonic all them evil noises and thrashin bout possessed with pure sin. I dern't get some of you folks - cain't see evil and sin right in front of yer hook noses. |
