What is "facial femininity?" What personality traits do you believe it is correlated with it?

What is "facial femininity?" What personality traits do you believe it is correlated with it? Certain facial features in women are seen as attractive, and appealing and we may see these faces indicating innocence. Symmetrical facial features, large eyes (Theory attracted to features similar to an infants that effects the limbic brain) and larger upper lip than lower lip and red enlarged lips (similar to engorged labial lips) paler skin, glowing skin, skin free of spots and other facial blemishes. (facial symmetry is about measurement; recent psychology research from the University of California, San Diego and the University of Toronto has found that the distance between a woman’s eyes and the distance between her eyes and mouth are very important in whether people find her attractive.  When the vertical distance between the eyes and the mouth was approximately 36 percent of the face’s length, and the horizontal distance between the eyes was approximately 46 percent of the face's width, the students judged the faces as more attractive. This study shows that the structure of faces -- the relation between our face contour and the eyes, mouth and nose -- also contributes to our perception of facial attractiveness. Those findings also explain why sometimes an attractive person looks unattractive or vice versa after a haircut, because hairdos change the face shape thus the ratios."

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Patti Wood, MA, Certified Speaking Professional - The Body Language Expert. For more body language insights go to her website at www.PattiWood.net. Check out Patti's website for her new book "SNAP, Making the Most of First Impressions, Body Language and Charisma" at www.snapfirstimpressions.com. Also check out Patti's YouTube channel at http://youtube.com/user/bodylanguageexpert.

Stress-Busting Smiles

Patti was interviewed by the Wall Street Journal on smiling.  Click the link below to read the full article which appeared in the Wall Street Journal today, February 26, 2013.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323699704578326363601444362.html#printMode?KEYWORDS=patti+wood+body+language+expert+on+smiling

Patti Wood, MA, Certified Speaking Professional - The Body Language Expert. For more body language insights go to her website at www.PattiWood.net. Check out Patti's website for her new book "SNAP, Making the Most of First Impressions, Body Language and Charisma" at www.snapfirstimpressions.com. Also check out Patti's YouTube channel at http://youtube.com/user/bodylanguageexpert.

What is the relationship between perceptions of faces and social decision making?

What is the relationship between perceptions of faces and social decision making? Yes, people form first impressions quickly and make decisions about who they want to interact with or avoid, do business with or hire or date. Research shows that people can form first impressions of threat looking at someone's face within the 39ms “Very first impressions. ”Bar, Moshe; Neta,Maital; Linz, Heather
Emotion, Vol 6(2), May 2006, Shows that for all judgments—attractiveness, likeability, trustworthiness, competence, and aggressiveness—increased exposure time did not significantly increase the correlations.

Also an interesting tidbit is that most people are not attracted to angry faces so it doesn’t give a good first impression but there are some people with high testosterone that are “rewarded” by that negative look and may work to get it. Even teasing someone till they get that annoyed look that rewards them.

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Patti Wood, MA, Certified Speaking Professional - The Body Language Expert. For more body language insights go to her website at www.PattiWood.net. Check out Patti's website for her new book "SNAP, Making the Most of First Impressions, Body Language and Charisma" at www.snapfirstimpressions.com. Also check out Patti's YouTube channel at http://youtube.com/user/bodylanguageexpert.

Are there any personality traits associated with certain facial shapes or features in men or women?

Are there any personality traits associated with certain facial shapes or features in men or women? Yes, features of masculinity --such as a heavy brow and angular face--somewhat overlap the expressions of anger and the facial features of roundness and soft features--overlap with the facial expressions for happiness so we are more likely to see a smiling face as feminine and an angry face as masculine. (Interesting to note that men with higher than average testosterone smile less)

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Patti Wood, MA, Certified Speaking Professional - The Body Language Expert. For more body language insights go to her website at www.PattiWood.net. Check out Patti's website for her new book "SNAP, Making the Most of First Impressions, Body Language and Charisma" at www.snapfirstimpressions.com. Also check out Patti's YouTube channel at http://youtube.com/user/bodylanguageexpert.

Patti Shares Insights with Vinnie Politan on HLN

Click the link below to hear Patti's insights on the body language of Jodi Arias during the murder trial of her ex-boyfriend, Travis Alexander. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hqqa3I3iWig&feature=youtu.be

Patti Wood, MA, Certified Speaking Professional - The Body Language Expert. For more body language insights go to her website at www.PattiWood.net. Check out Patti's website for her new book "SNAP, Making the Most of First Impressions, Body Language and Charisma" at www.snapfirstimpressions.com. Also check out Patti's YouTube channel at http://youtube.com/user/bodylanguageexpert.