picture this you wake up in the morning
for your daily your ordinary rituals you
freshen up and you look at the
reflection in the mirror
have you ever looking in the mirror ask
yourself wondered who you are this
difficult and recurring question can now
be answered by an ancient yet
evolutionary method which our ancestor
Aristotle named physiognomic would you
ever think that just through the face we
could better understand not only our own
personality but also that of the people
around us the personality of our friends
of our colleagues the personality of our
boss of the politicians we vote for the
personality of the partner we choose
generally speaking the most direct way
of communicating is visual our brain can
process images 60,000 times faster than
words we are all receivers and
transmitters of the visual cues our body
and our face display we as humans are
rigged in such a way to be able to make
split-second decisions based on poster
gestures micro expressions and facial
features women in general have better
intuition and ability to read nonverbal
cues and this has been proven
evolutionary as they needed to decode
baby’s expressions and their emotions
men on the other hand have a simpler
so how could we instantly understand and
connect with a person we’re talking to
face to face well through the face of
course but what is the human face is it
just a mask behind which we’re hiding a
true personality is that the portal
through which we communicate with the
other world our face displays a whole
wealth of information it has helped us
evolve by communicating our emotions and
our thoughts in order long before a
language was developed what makes us
unique is the mixture of our features
scientists at Stanford University were
able to identify 15 genes in our DNA
responsible for facial characteristics
our face can help us detect who is
healthy and who is sick and also who was
flirt where they whom and when to trust
someone or not our face is a dynamic
structure which changes both over a
lifetime as it has changed over
evolutionary time it always reflects our
current emotional state when we think
about something that stresses us or when
we think about something that excites us
all these emotions are expressed within
our face talking about expressions now
Paul Ekman world authority in micro
expressions of University California
discovered that our face just before
talking makes these expressions
instantaneously these contractions the
micro expressions happen in a
subconscious way and they’re conscious
mind cannot easily distinguish them yet
Arkansas sub-conscience
can easily tell them apart these
contractions help us decode and sense
whether someone is true to his inner
emotions whether he is congruent to his
MO to his emotions while he says
something verbally recently Zuckerberg
testified to the Congress and although
his face was expressionless at certain
points his true emotions did surface
software was used to analyze these
expressions and was able to identify not
only when but actually what he was
expressing at those specific
now let me ask you a question have you
ever found it hard to recognize even
your own face in some photographs this
might be because our brain encodes
images of faces in an exaggerated way it
keeps the highlights like caricatures
and studies show that we’re up to 23
percent faster at reading caricatures
than actual tracings that will produce
the image exactly artists of all ages
have used various methods to help them
portray depicted personality in more
depth and more substance than just
superficially and one of those methods
was physiognomic in comic book character
creation in 3d modeling this is common
practice in fact my own involvement with
this methodology happened for exactly
the same reason but also another visual
media like in the movies
how successfully a role is portrayed and
conveyed depends on the right casting of
the appropriate face that expresses all
these features so physiognomies in Moore
for psychology these two methods aid the
interpretation of her personality traits
and predispositions through the study
and evaluation of the facial structure
and individual features we can decode
things like inherited or developed
traits also dormant or expressed
elements its exact origins are lost
somewhere in history yet we know from
the Greek part that hi pocket is the
father of medicine was the first who
introduced the for human temperaments
the sanguine phlegmatic choleric and
melancholic where he associated physical
appearance health and internal
psychological characteristics most
current psychometric tools Maya Briggs
Type Indicator extended disc or call
Young’s temperaments have the route
summer and hippocrates temperaments
Aristotle gave us the first written work
on physiognomy fish Johanna Monica where
he connected human faces with animal
faces and it is a base upon which
Western physiography was built on today
one may
say that we live in the era of the image
we have screens displays large small
everywhere and face recognition
artificial intelligence is already
faster and even more accurate than
humans at recognizing facial cues
physiognomies is making a strong
comeback after various ups and downs
through history with higher beliefs and
indications from the facial features are
found for many many scientific fields
indicate the connection between our
external facial features and
morphological features with internal
emotional and psychological elements
within us now look at the symbols what
can we see in a face all women in here
whether you realize it or not this
moment your pupils may have dilated up
to 43% babies faces evoke our emotional
response to want to protect them because
we see in them signs of innocence of
sensitivity of sincerity and
vulnerability but what are these
proportions we associate to these
characteristics they are the large
rounded forehead eyes with distance from
the eyebrows smallest nose fleshy
rosebud lips and the smallest chin open
features that allow a lot of
assimilation of information that’s why
children learn so fast but hard to block
external environmental influences as we
grow older are our features our shrink
shrink are retracted within the orifices
and we lose this this ability to be more
receptive like children are but we also
have adults that share this baby-faced
features and these are linked into
people’s minds with the same positive
qualities of innocence of children so
much so that in many cases criminals
that had baby face features were
acquitted from their crimes so we have
one face in a very symmetrical here
right but in reality we are all
two-faced
in the sense that our right side in the
left side our face are never an exact
same Matt they’re a symmetrical so let’s
see how a symmetrical version of
ourselves would be if we create what we
call these chimerical facial composites
where we take one part we duplicated we
flip it over and create an image
synthesized by one part of the face let
us have a look at the right composite
look at the impression how serious
austere even sinister one may say the
right part of the face is controlled by
our left hemisphere and indicates our
conscious mentality what we want others
to believe from us let’s see the left
how is this impression more calm more
even more expressive the left part
indicates our subconscious part the core
emotions of our personality as it is
controlled by the right hemisphere of
the brain so how can this asymmetry in
our face help us in our everyday life
when we see a furious look from one side
most certainly it’s put on equally a
lopsided smile is likely to be insincere
and if any one of you over here
suspect your partner for anything just
ask a tricky question and look at which
part of the face at the left part okay
so how can we decode personality traits
imprinted within the face are you
curious to find out some hints
just a note we’re talking about
proportions here not actual distances
and we shouldn’t read one face to the
exclusion of others so when we look at
the face head-on it reveals our capacity
what lies within the development and
width serves the development in quantity
practicality sustainability where’s the
development and height shows development
in theory and perception and we see
generally people that have more
elongated narrow faces have more let’s
say theoretical and idealistic pursuits
than pragmatic and materialistic ones
whereas people who are more involved in
the action politicians or business
people people of actions have in general
wider faces this is like a gross
oversimplification but just to get the
idea our profile indicates how we
express the capacity we have depending
on how much it protrudes or hamlets
vertical it is it shows where there our
expression is more impulsive controls or
introverted now the outer frame of the
face it is static its bone structure
that subtly changes over a lifetime and
it indicates our core Constitution and
health tendencies are long-term deeper
attitudes and actions where’s the inner
part of a frame
the face this triangle composed by the
eyes the nose and the mouth is where our
our receptors are it is the dynamic
features it shows our immediate
responses and our social behavior so
let’s put this together
also the retraction or expansion of
these features so whether we have an
introvert or actor extroverted
expression of these features so we have
over here a sensitive type
this sensor inside is really sensitive
on the left as you can see rather as you
see it on the right we have an
elliptical frame more let’s say weaker
frame influenced deeply and on the left
we have a large frame influence
specifically so if we apply the inner
frame to the outer frame we have an
impression here and we could see that
the same sensitivity in both types yet
the assimilation is very different and
one type it’s influenced in depth and
for long term words and the other one is
influenced specifically and short term
very quickly we can measure the face and
divide it into three equal zones the
upper zone is the zone of mentality over
intellectual ability the middle zone
where the receptors shelves are as we
said the social adaptability and our
emotions and the lower zone is the
energy zone you could think of it as the
engine of the face that allows us or
inhibitors depending on the development
to materialize our thoughts or goals or
our passions so we’ll use now some
exaggerated morphed face here’s just for
display purposes to see the difference
in development we have a face that is
predominantly mental one who is
predominantly physical and one who is
emotional and these determined grossly
the general face shapes so depending on
the development of these three primary
forces or intelligence or sensitivity
and our energy levels these elements
determine our perception our emotions
and our actions now very shortly let’s
focus on two dynamic features that are
more interesting the eyes that lie
between our mental abilities and our
emotional ability
correspond to our conscious mentality it
is one feature that is very difficult to
control by will and the eye movement
depending on where it moves can show our
thought process whether were visual
auditory kinesthetic whether we are
remembering something or we’re creating
something in our thoughts so the
location the size and the tonality shows
different things first of all the start
from the eyebrows raising the eyebrow
which many of you could do here but I
can’t raise just one my eyebrow
specifically aided human evolution
highly mobile odd eyebrows gave humans
the ability for nonverbal communication
so necessary to create large networks so
as we look at the eyes from the front
let’s say a person who has large eyes is
responsible is commanding has the
ability to control and to influence
other people and is also bold and
adventurous and the other hand smallest
eyes are more introverted more cautious
more shrewd as yet loyal and the
location when we see the location
between the eyes when it’s normal we
have a balanced perception when it is
over here with smaller distance between
the two eyes we have a person who is
detail-oriented is more meticulous and
needs exact steps and procedures in
order to understand but also is
hypersensitive could miss the whole
picture because he’s looking at the
details on the other hand we have eyes
wide apart this is a generality person
you shouldn’t bog him down with all the
minut details but sometimes this person
will miss the details that details that
make the difference tonality wise
downward slopping eyes what is the
impression more mellow low-energy but
with more empathy an upward-sloping eyes
look at this impression here how dynamic
aggression these eyes belong to a
predator even if you see it in other
animals as well
it shows nervous intensity and animal
magnetism ability and need for
independence so what is the other
dynamic feature most men in here are
probably fixated at the lips and the
mouths right now within the first 10
seconds when men look at women half of
the time is spent looking at the mouth
so which is the most famous expression
the mouth makes is a smile can you spot
a fake or a genuine smile when the smile
is genuine the whole face is involved
the eyes the muscles and the duration
are in context if we cannot smile
genuinely people cannot trust us it is
the most immediate way to get into a
receptive state as we affect our central
nervous system and create endorphins
released in the brain it also signifies
submission and lack of threat the mouth
is the hardest feature just with the
eyes to control consciously it reveals
the character of the action just as the
eyes reveal the character of thought
even when silent it is eloquent of truth
the proportions between the upper and
the lower lip signify our ability to
give emotionally and our need to receive
emotionally as the lips are never the
same they changed as we age and how we
feel when we’re stressed the upper lip
especially seems down becomes compressed
but when we’re relaxed or even when
we’re aroused all these become much
fuller so people who have the
predominance of the upper lip are more
let’s say takers and the lower lip is
more the opposite the upper lip
signifies our ability to give
emotionally whereas the lower lip
signifies our need to receive
emotionally so the relation between
these two could tell us whether a person
is more a giver or a taker emotionally
so now what we’ve read thoroughly all
the faced we analyzed all the features
what we do first of all you have no
excuse anymore in boring meetings you
just could stay there analyze people’s
expressions and the facial features and
have fun but how would you feel if you
connect with a person across you and
your relations and your personal or your
professional relations this insight of
visual pattern recognition
could help us know how to anticipate and
what to expect for its personality but
let’s go shortly back to our Greek
ancient friends now
for when Socrates was teaching
philosophy to his disciples and famous
for the alchemists of the times or
purest arrived after he studied his face
he declared that Socrates face was quite
the opposite to a true philosopher he
was impulsive giving into sensual
pleasures and with a violent burst of
anger the disciples promptly derided the
physiognomist
as a pretender however his Socrates put
them to silence and admitted his natural
propensity to all those vices which as
the story set goes he was able to
conquer only by studying philosophy and
of course by self-discipline so the
point here is not to use all this
knowledge in a fatalistic way in a fixed
mindset instead cultivate a sharper
awareness of a unique facial strengths
and what messages they convey because
the more we understand our face the more
we understand ourselves who we are so I
invite you in your daily ordinary
face-to-face interactions to just pause
be present look into the eye assimilate
the visual information of the person
across you and notice how this impacts
your communication with others and with
yourself
both rationally but foremost emotionally
which is worth becoming our core
strength thank you [Applause]
for your daily your ordinary rituals you
freshen up and you look at the
reflection in the mirror
have you ever looking in the mirror ask
yourself wondered who you are this
difficult and recurring question can now
be answered by an ancient yet
evolutionary method which our ancestor
Aristotle named physiognomic would you
ever think that just through the face we
could better understand not only our own
personality but also that of the people
around us the personality of our friends
of our colleagues the personality of our
boss of the politicians we vote for the
personality of the partner we choose
generally speaking the most direct way
of communicating is visual our brain can
process images 60,000 times faster than
words we are all receivers and
transmitters of the visual cues our body
and our face display we as humans are
rigged in such a way to be able to make
split-second decisions based on poster
gestures micro expressions and facial
features women in general have better
intuition and ability to read nonverbal
cues and this has been proven
evolutionary as they needed to decode
baby’s expressions and their emotions
men on the other hand have a simpler
so how could we instantly understand and
connect with a person we’re talking to
face to face well through the face of
course but what is the human face is it
just a mask behind which we’re hiding a
true personality is that the portal
through which we communicate with the
other world our face displays a whole
wealth of information it has helped us
evolve by communicating our emotions and
our thoughts in order long before a
language was developed what makes us
unique is the mixture of our features
scientists at Stanford University were
able to identify 15 genes in our DNA
responsible for facial characteristics
our face can help us detect who is
healthy and who is sick and also who was
flirt where they whom and when to trust
someone or not our face is a dynamic
structure which changes both over a
lifetime as it has changed over
evolutionary time it always reflects our
current emotional state when we think
about something that stresses us or when
we think about something that excites us
all these emotions are expressed within
our face talking about expressions now
Paul Ekman world authority in micro
expressions of University California
discovered that our face just before
talking makes these expressions
instantaneously these contractions the
micro expressions happen in a
subconscious way and they’re conscious
mind cannot easily distinguish them yet
Arkansas sub-conscience
can easily tell them apart these
contractions help us decode and sense
whether someone is true to his inner
emotions whether he is congruent to his
MO to his emotions while he says
something verbally recently Zuckerberg
testified to the Congress and although
his face was expressionless at certain
points his true emotions did surface
software was used to analyze these
expressions and was able to identify not
only when but actually what he was
expressing at those specific
now let me ask you a question have you
ever found it hard to recognize even
your own face in some photographs this
might be because our brain encodes
images of faces in an exaggerated way it
keeps the highlights like caricatures
and studies show that we’re up to 23
percent faster at reading caricatures
than actual tracings that will produce
the image exactly artists of all ages
have used various methods to help them
portray depicted personality in more
depth and more substance than just
superficially and one of those methods
was physiognomic in comic book character
creation in 3d modeling this is common
practice in fact my own involvement with
this methodology happened for exactly
the same reason but also another visual
media like in the movies
how successfully a role is portrayed and
conveyed depends on the right casting of
the appropriate face that expresses all
these features so physiognomies in Moore
for psychology these two methods aid the
interpretation of her personality traits
and predispositions through the study
and evaluation of the facial structure
and individual features we can decode
things like inherited or developed
traits also dormant or expressed
elements its exact origins are lost
somewhere in history yet we know from
the Greek part that hi pocket is the
father of medicine was the first who
introduced the for human temperaments
the sanguine phlegmatic choleric and
melancholic where he associated physical
appearance health and internal
psychological characteristics most
current psychometric tools Maya Briggs
Type Indicator extended disc or call
Young’s temperaments have the route
summer and hippocrates temperaments
Aristotle gave us the first written work
on physiognomy fish Johanna Monica where
he connected human faces with animal
faces and it is a base upon which
Western physiography was built on today
one may
say that we live in the era of the image
we have screens displays large small
everywhere and face recognition
artificial intelligence is already
faster and even more accurate than
humans at recognizing facial cues
physiognomies is making a strong
comeback after various ups and downs
through history with higher beliefs and
indications from the facial features are
found for many many scientific fields
indicate the connection between our
external facial features and
morphological features with internal
emotional and psychological elements
within us now look at the symbols what
can we see in a face all women in here
whether you realize it or not this
moment your pupils may have dilated up
to 43% babies faces evoke our emotional
response to want to protect them because
we see in them signs of innocence of
sensitivity of sincerity and
vulnerability but what are these
proportions we associate to these
characteristics they are the large
rounded forehead eyes with distance from
the eyebrows smallest nose fleshy
rosebud lips and the smallest chin open
features that allow a lot of
assimilation of information that’s why
children learn so fast but hard to block
external environmental influences as we
grow older are our features our shrink
shrink are retracted within the orifices
and we lose this this ability to be more
receptive like children are but we also
have adults that share this baby-faced
features and these are linked into
people’s minds with the same positive
qualities of innocence of children so
much so that in many cases criminals
that had baby face features were
acquitted from their crimes so we have
one face in a very symmetrical here
right but in reality we are all
two-faced
in the sense that our right side in the
left side our face are never an exact
same Matt they’re a symmetrical so let’s
see how a symmetrical version of
ourselves would be if we create what we
call these chimerical facial composites
where we take one part we duplicated we
flip it over and create an image
synthesized by one part of the face let
us have a look at the right composite
look at the impression how serious
austere even sinister one may say the
right part of the face is controlled by
our left hemisphere and indicates our
conscious mentality what we want others
to believe from us let’s see the left
how is this impression more calm more
even more expressive the left part
indicates our subconscious part the core
emotions of our personality as it is
controlled by the right hemisphere of
the brain so how can this asymmetry in
our face help us in our everyday life
when we see a furious look from one side
most certainly it’s put on equally a
lopsided smile is likely to be insincere
and if any one of you over here
suspect your partner for anything just
ask a tricky question and look at which
part of the face at the left part okay
so how can we decode personality traits
imprinted within the face are you
curious to find out some hints
just a note we’re talking about
proportions here not actual distances
and we shouldn’t read one face to the
exclusion of others so when we look at
the face head-on it reveals our capacity
what lies within the development and
width serves the development in quantity
practicality sustainability where’s the
development and height shows development
in theory and perception and we see
generally people that have more
elongated narrow faces have more let’s
say theoretical and idealistic pursuits
than pragmatic and materialistic ones
whereas people who are more involved in
the action politicians or business
people people of actions have in general
wider faces this is like a gross
oversimplification but just to get the
idea our profile indicates how we
express the capacity we have depending
on how much it protrudes or hamlets
vertical it is it shows where there our
expression is more impulsive controls or
introverted now the outer frame of the
face it is static its bone structure
that subtly changes over a lifetime and
it indicates our core Constitution and
health tendencies are long-term deeper
attitudes and actions where’s the inner
part of a frame
the face this triangle composed by the
eyes the nose and the mouth is where our
our receptors are it is the dynamic
features it shows our immediate
responses and our social behavior so
let’s put this together
also the retraction or expansion of
these features so whether we have an
introvert or actor extroverted
expression of these features so we have
over here a sensitive type
this sensor inside is really sensitive
on the left as you can see rather as you
see it on the right we have an
elliptical frame more let’s say weaker
frame influenced deeply and on the left
we have a large frame influence
specifically so if we apply the inner
frame to the outer frame we have an
impression here and we could see that
the same sensitivity in both types yet
the assimilation is very different and
one type it’s influenced in depth and
for long term words and the other one is
influenced specifically and short term
very quickly we can measure the face and
divide it into three equal zones the
upper zone is the zone of mentality over
intellectual ability the middle zone
where the receptors shelves are as we
said the social adaptability and our
emotions and the lower zone is the
energy zone you could think of it as the
engine of the face that allows us or
inhibitors depending on the development
to materialize our thoughts or goals or
our passions so we’ll use now some
exaggerated morphed face here’s just for
display purposes to see the difference
in development we have a face that is
predominantly mental one who is
predominantly physical and one who is
emotional and these determined grossly
the general face shapes so depending on
the development of these three primary
forces or intelligence or sensitivity
and our energy levels these elements
determine our perception our emotions
and our actions now very shortly let’s
focus on two dynamic features that are
more interesting the eyes that lie
between our mental abilities and our
emotional ability
correspond to our conscious mentality it
is one feature that is very difficult to
control by will and the eye movement
depending on where it moves can show our
thought process whether were visual
auditory kinesthetic whether we are
remembering something or we’re creating
something in our thoughts so the
location the size and the tonality shows
different things first of all the start
from the eyebrows raising the eyebrow
which many of you could do here but I
can’t raise just one my eyebrow
specifically aided human evolution
highly mobile odd eyebrows gave humans
the ability for nonverbal communication
so necessary to create large networks so
as we look at the eyes from the front
let’s say a person who has large eyes is
responsible is commanding has the
ability to control and to influence
other people and is also bold and
adventurous and the other hand smallest
eyes are more introverted more cautious
more shrewd as yet loyal and the
location when we see the location
between the eyes when it’s normal we
have a balanced perception when it is
over here with smaller distance between
the two eyes we have a person who is
detail-oriented is more meticulous and
needs exact steps and procedures in
order to understand but also is
hypersensitive could miss the whole
picture because he’s looking at the
details on the other hand we have eyes
wide apart this is a generality person
you shouldn’t bog him down with all the
minut details but sometimes this person
will miss the details that details that
make the difference tonality wise
downward slopping eyes what is the
impression more mellow low-energy but
with more empathy an upward-sloping eyes
look at this impression here how dynamic
aggression these eyes belong to a
predator even if you see it in other
animals as well
it shows nervous intensity and animal
magnetism ability and need for
independence so what is the other
dynamic feature most men in here are
probably fixated at the lips and the
mouths right now within the first 10
seconds when men look at women half of
the time is spent looking at the mouth
so which is the most famous expression
the mouth makes is a smile can you spot
a fake or a genuine smile when the smile
is genuine the whole face is involved
the eyes the muscles and the duration
are in context if we cannot smile
genuinely people cannot trust us it is
the most immediate way to get into a
receptive state as we affect our central
nervous system and create endorphins
released in the brain it also signifies
submission and lack of threat the mouth
is the hardest feature just with the
eyes to control consciously it reveals
the character of the action just as the
eyes reveal the character of thought
even when silent it is eloquent of truth
the proportions between the upper and
the lower lip signify our ability to
give emotionally and our need to receive
emotionally as the lips are never the
same they changed as we age and how we
feel when we’re stressed the upper lip
especially seems down becomes compressed
but when we’re relaxed or even when
we’re aroused all these become much
fuller so people who have the
predominance of the upper lip are more
let’s say takers and the lower lip is
more the opposite the upper lip
signifies our ability to give
emotionally whereas the lower lip
signifies our need to receive
emotionally so the relation between
these two could tell us whether a person
is more a giver or a taker emotionally
so now what we’ve read thoroughly all
the faced we analyzed all the features
what we do first of all you have no
excuse anymore in boring meetings you
just could stay there analyze people’s
expressions and the facial features and
have fun but how would you feel if you
connect with a person across you and
your relations and your personal or your
professional relations this insight of
visual pattern recognition
could help us know how to anticipate and
what to expect for its personality but
let’s go shortly back to our Greek
ancient friends now
for when Socrates was teaching
philosophy to his disciples and famous
for the alchemists of the times or
purest arrived after he studied his face
he declared that Socrates face was quite
the opposite to a true philosopher he
was impulsive giving into sensual
pleasures and with a violent burst of
anger the disciples promptly derided the
physiognomist
as a pretender however his Socrates put
them to silence and admitted his natural
propensity to all those vices which as
the story set goes he was able to
conquer only by studying philosophy and
of course by self-discipline so the
point here is not to use all this
knowledge in a fatalistic way in a fixed
mindset instead cultivate a sharper
awareness of a unique facial strengths
and what messages they convey because
the more we understand our face the more
we understand ourselves who we are so I
invite you in your daily ordinary
face-to-face interactions to just pause
be present look into the eye assimilate
the visual information of the person
across you and notice how this impacts
your communication with others and with
yourself
both rationally but foremost emotionally
which is worth becoming our core
strength thank you [Applause]
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