Your neutral facial expression can reveal your socio-economic status

Michal

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Hi,

couple days ago I stumbled upon an article based on a research from University of Toronto showing that people can guess your socio-economic status. The article is here. If you do not have the time to read it, I will list out the findings. They key thing to mention is that the method was just showing pictures to students and they were guessing based on their gut instinct.
- neutral expressions showing signs of happiness and satisfaction = rich
- neutral expressions showing signs of sadness and unsatisfaction = poor
- emotion mask this - so if you are really poor or unsatisfied with your life, show some emotion, smile more etc.
- readable on people since their 18-22 year of age
categorized as:
x < £46,000 = poor
x > £77,000 = rich

You can try it for yourself in the picture bellow... at the end of the post, I put have the answer which faces indicate which social class.
Composite-images-used-in-Study-5A-A-rich-Full-Composites-B-poor-Full.png


While this is most likely nothing new... I believe this is something that can hinder someone's chances without them even knowing.

A and C = rich
B and D = poor
 
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