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...jutting into the audience like the garnish on a kebab skewer. Kudos for that, and for the variations the filmmakers run on the mischief a pickax can work on the human body. (Or a shovel: one victim gets her face sliced through sideways at the mouth, the head sliding slowly down the shovel, everything from the jaw and below dropping out of frame.) Such are the reductive pleasures of horror movies; they turn viewers into connoisseurs of sadism, co-conspirators with the madman performing his miner atrocities. It's what we're here for, right...
...taken by Willingham, a professional photographer, and carefully coded all the expressions on the athletes' faces. The authors found that regardless of whether the athletes could see, the gold-medal winners were significantly more likely to display real, joyful smiles - those that engage not just the muscles around the mouth but also those around the eyes - than those athletes who got silver medals. The ones who received silvers, whether blind or sighted, were significantly more likely to display social or lying smiles - those in which only the mouth muscles are engaged. (You can tell the difference between real and social...
...evidence of this in a Science paper back in 1983. They found that those instructed to produce certain facial movements showed the same physiological responses as those asked to recall a highly emotional experience. Later, a study showed that if you hold a pencil between your teeth - causing your mouth to approximate a smile - it will be easier for you to find cartoons funny...
Kerry, John • foot of is once again jammed by into mouth...
Stay CoolWhatever happens, don't bad-mouth your boss. "Take the high road," Post says. The low one could make job hunting harder...