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061 - Mindfulness - Michael Taft

You Are Not So Smart

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How Do You Read People's Emotions?

One of the main ways that you're evaluating their emotional state is by subtly recreating the expressions they're making in your own body. You're doing micro-expressions. One study found people with Botox injections have slightly frozen the muscles of their face, so they can't actually do this unconscious micro-expression mimicking of another person and understand them. And because they had to work a little harder, the person could feel it. Those people had higher empathy than the control group.

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