Physiognomy: Difference between revisions

*Certain neurodevelopmental conditions and mental illnesses can be associated with particular fixed facial expressions. For example, very intense people might bite their lips, crunch their teeth, chew their nails, and engage in other nervous tics. Autistics are often described as having a blank, unexpressive face. This is also found in schizophrenia.<ref>https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/flat-affect</ref> Some mental conditions result in a tilted mouth. Socially excluded individuals may make odd facial expressions or engage in tics as nobody is there to correct their behavior, or such behavior may be induced by the greater stress such people often face. Alternatively, these expressions are revealing the personality traits and inner affect of such people in a way they cannot disguise without conscious control. People are, in fact, able to infer other's mental conditions above chance level based on photos.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0092656618300394</ref> Autists are recognized as less approachable and attractive within seconds.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Autists_are_judged_as_awkward.2C_less_physically_attractive_and_less_approachable_within_seconds</ref> More broadly, mental illness may be associated with the use of less positive and more negative facial expressions,<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0920996421005107</ref> The personality trait neuroticism, linked to mental illness in general, is linked to perceptions of negative affect in faces.<ref>https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jopy.12262</ref> Negative facial emotions, particularly anger, are generally judged as less favorable.<ref>https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/abs/10.1521/soco.2011.29.4.415</ref> This would promote less favorable evaluations of people with such resting expressions.