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Amazing what one can learn in the details. TIL that face musculature is controlled by the hindbrain. I always thought they were run like all the other actively controlled muscles.
Maybe that's why reading someone's face is such a good method for determining another's mental state. Even when we try to control it there is something that gives us away.
So is emotion. That’s why marketing and propaganda targets it.