{"id":119,"date":"2016-01-23T09:22:39","date_gmt":"2016-01-23T09:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/?p=119"},"modified":"2016-01-23T01:35:27","modified_gmt":"2016-01-23T01:35:27","slug":"how-good-are-you-at-reading-faces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/?p=119","title":{"rendered":"How good are you at reading faces?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/greatergood.berkeley.edu\/ei_quiz\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-120\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-120\" src=\"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/20160122bodylanguagequiz.jpg\" alt=\"20160122bodylanguagequiz\" width=\"531\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/20160122bodylanguagequiz.jpg 531w, http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/20160122bodylanguagequiz-300x256.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" \/><\/a>As an author, I&#8217;m constantly trying to get into other people&#8217;s heads to make my characters more interesting. But when it comes to verbally representing nonverbal cues, sometimes I realize my characters have smiled or cocked their head to one side twenty times in the last chapter. So I decided to try out <a href=\"http:\/\/greatergood.berkeley.edu\/ei_quiz\/\">Berkeley&#8217;s Body Language Quiz<\/a>, a fun way to test your face-reading abilities (while also being treated to twenty handy diagrams pinpointing which features showcase each emotion).<\/p>\n<p>In the end, the quiz told me I scored above average, getting 14 out of 20 expressions right. However, I&#8217;m ashamed to admit that I misread love. Flirtation, compassion, pain &#8212; all were easy for me to guess. But love threw a monkey wrench in my brain receptors &#8212; don&#8217;t tell my husband!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be curious to hear how you fare. Reading fiction is supposed to boost your empathy levels, but spending too much time with your nose in a book might make your face-reading abilities suffer. So what do you think? Are readers good at reading faces&#8230;or just books?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an author, I&#8217;m constantly trying to get into other people&#8217;s heads to make my characters more interesting. But when it comes to verbally representing nonverbal cues, sometimes I realize my characters have smiled or cocked their head to one side twenty times in the last chapter. So I decided to try out Berkeley&#8217;s Body [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychology","tag-psychology","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123,"href":"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}