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corners of the eyebrows are pulled up. Fewer than 15% of the people Ekman tested were able to produce this
eyebrow movement voluntarily.
By contrast, the lowering of the eyebrows associated with an angry scowl can be replicated at will but
almost everybody. “If someone claims they are sad and the inner corners of their eyebrows don’t go up,
Ekmam says, the sadness is probably false.”
The smile, on the other hand, is one of the easiest facial expressions to counterfeit. It takes just two
muscles -the zygomaticus major muscles that extend from the cheekbones to the corners of the lips to
produce a grin. But there’s a catch. A genuine smile affects not only the corners of the lips but also the
orbicularis oculi, the muscle around the eye that produces the distinctive “crow’s feet” associated with
people who laugh a lot. A counterfeit grin can be unmasked if the corners of the lips go up, the eyes crinkle,
but the inner corners of the eyebrows are not lowered, a movement controlled by the orbicularis oculi that is
difficult to fake. The absence of lowered eyebrows is one reason why the smile looks so strained and stiff
Choose the correct letter A, B, C or D . Q1. How does the lie detector work? A. It detects whether one's emotional state is stable.
B. It detects one’s brain activity level.
C. It detects body behavior during one's verbal response.
D. It analyses one's verbal response word by word.
Q2. Lie detectors can't be used as evidence in a court of law because A. Lights often cause lie detectors to malfunction.
B. They are based on too many verbal and non-verbal clues.
