Name: Former FBI Agent Explains How to Read Facial Expressions | WIRED
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As babies we can recognize that big smile

But we're confronted with many variants of that.

Just take a look at these, all examples of smiles.

some are a little reserved, some are a little nervous.

They're all smiles, but what are they communicating?

And for 25 years I was a spy catcher for the FBI.

You may be familiar with my previous video,

And people who prattle that, and say, well,

we can detect deception because the person

touches their nose or covers their mouth.

And today we're going to focus on the face.

When it comes to non-verbals, the face is key.

is to think of it in two areas, comfort and discomfort,

because really that's how the brain reacts to the world.

So let's start with psychological comfort.

the muscles of the face become very relaxed,

and we have all the behaviors that are associated with it.

Smiling, laughing, usually the pupils are slightly wider.

The very second that there's psychological discomfort,

usually it begins to register in several areas.

Now, for some people we'll see it in the forehead

where there'll be furrowing of the forehead or squinting.

And of course, the tucking down of the chin.

Or, in some instances where something is really emotional,

is a display of psychological discomfort.

So our faces, what we feel in that moment

is immediately displayed by our non-verbals.

is that behavior consistent with comfort,

One of the questions that I'm often asked is,

As children we play with each other's hair,

We immediately notice when it's wet, or dry,

that perhaps there's some sort of discomfort.

The eyebrows, the arching of the eyebrows

Doing that eyebrow flash when we see someone,

we recognize them, we go, hey, how are you?

The glabella, this little area between the eyes.

and we might squint at them and look at them askance.

when they don't like something they're being offered.

And then there's the lips, which convey so much information.

Maybe as often as the eyes, I'm asked about smiles.

We have little secretive smiles that we might give

There is so much to our mouths, it's so expressive.

You may not notice, for instance, the pupils,

but subconsciously your brain is assessing this information.

So we never stop communicating with our faces.

It is something that is always telegraphing

One of the things that was startling to me

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