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In portrait photographs from high school and university yearbooks, women do not smile 8% of the time, but men do not smile 41% of the time.<ref>https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00287672</ref> | In portrait photographs from high school and university yearbooks, women do not smile 8% of the time, but men do not smile 41% of the time.<ref>https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00287672</ref> | ||
== Laughing == | === Laughing === | ||
Laughing simultaneously seems to act as a signal of acknowledging someone's status, perhaps with a subconscious intention to attain access to resources by maintaining a good relationship with the high status individual. For example, people more often laugh about jokes told by a more attractive man<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Attractive_men_are_perceived_as_.27funnier.27.2C_even_when_they_are_actually_not</ref> and attractiveness is moderately related to status.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#A_man.27s_looks_are_significantly_correlated_with_his_popularity_and_peer_status</ref> Also there are different types of laugh archetypes which influence the laugher's perceived dominance, rank, and personality. For example, there is the hearty laugh, which is excessively low in pitch, and perceived as incredibly dominant. As well as the evil laugh which is also perceived as incredibly dominant, but of ambiguous social status, which is unnerving.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_laughter</ref> Less dominant people likely also accommodate their laughter to the voice pitch and style of their higher status partners and of the group. | Laughing simultaneously seems to act as a signal of acknowledging someone's status, perhaps with a subconscious intention to attain access to resources by maintaining a good relationship with the high status individual. For example, people more often laugh about jokes told by a more attractive man<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Attractive_men_are_perceived_as_.27funnier.27.2C_even_when_they_are_actually_not</ref> and attractiveness is moderately related to status.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#A_man.27s_looks_are_significantly_correlated_with_his_popularity_and_peer_status</ref> Also there are different types of laugh archetypes which influence the laugher's perceived dominance, rank, and personality. For example, there is the hearty laugh, which is excessively low in pitch, and perceived as incredibly dominant. As well as the evil laugh which is also perceived as incredibly dominant, but of ambiguous social status, which is unnerving.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_laughter</ref> Less dominant people likely also accommodate their laughter to the voice pitch and style of their higher status partners and of the group. | ||
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Blushing can also be caused by anger though (adrenaline rush causing high blood pressure), as well as by sexual arousal (also due to increased blood pressure), both of which the fight or flight response (historically sex was possibly quite dangerous and might have involved fending contending males who overheard the woman's moaning and mating calls, who knows). | Blushing can also be caused by anger though (adrenaline rush causing high blood pressure), as well as by sexual arousal (also due to increased blood pressure), both of which the fight or flight response (historically sex was possibly quite dangerous and might have involved fending contending males who overheard the woman's moaning and mating calls, who knows). | ||
=== Looks === | === Looks === | ||