Can you tell what someone is like just by looking at them?
Whether they are good, bad, guilty, not, nice, intelligent, dumb etc etc, just by looking at their faces or facial expressions or face in general? Cheers.
shareNo.
Nobody can. Anyone who says they can is an idiot or a liar.
Also, say if you were to look into faces of politicians, can you REALLY determine factors in them that makes you think - oh he is terrible or he is not that bad?
shareIsn't that the same question, slightly rephrased? The answer is still: no. You cannot know a person's character from just looking at their face.
Some people think they can, and they might even claim loudly that they're very good with first impressions - 'a good judge of character' - because they remember the times they got it right and forget the times they got it wrong. It's standard issue confirmation bias.
But nobody has this skill. It isn't a skill that is available to human beings.
But then I often hear people say stuff - He looks like a psychopath, he looks like a serial killer, he looks like a [insert appropriate adjective or noun etc] and how true is that?
How about the face of that individual etc makes me puke? Or he looks like a smug etc guilty folk?
OK. Someone says 'He looks like a serial killer.'
What do you think the chances of them being correct are?
So vanishingly small it's not even worth thinking about. Unless, of course, you mean someone watching a person on TV who has been charged with multiple murders: 'Well, he looks like a serial killer!' In which case the chances of being right are probably much higher than they would be for random people you pass in the street.
Point is: we require much more information than just a face, or a facial expression to make accurate assessments of people. And even with much more information, we often still get these things wrong.
Agreed. For this reason I tend to greet all new people in the same way and go from there because there’s no way of knowing.
shareI agree of course that few if any person has "psychopath" or "something bad" like that written on their forehead but then again, I look at some people and think - THAT person could not do anything BAD etc.
And if its a pretty young girl or woman, could you tell just by looking at her for instance, that SHE may be capable of malicious harm of any kind? Maybe not.
Or...?