Reading Faces

• Sedih

• Takut

• Marah

• Jijik

• Kaget

Answer explanation

Slight sadness. If you thought of any related word, such as "blue" or "dejected" or "depressed," that would also be correct. The expression is shown in the drooping upper eyelids. Tired or sleepy could also be correct, not because it is a related word but because the drooping eyelids she shows can occur in tiredness as well as sadness; when the upper eyelids begin to droop in tiredness, you might, however, see the eyes lose their focus, and an occasional yawn or shaking of the head

• Sedih

• Takut

• Jijik

• Takut

• Meremehkan

Answer explanation

Disgust. Again, a related word would be acceptable, but not one in the anger family, such as annoyed or irritated. The clue is in the slight contraction of the muscle that wrinkles the nose and narrows the eyes.

• Slight sadness

• Slight Angry

• Disgust

• Suprise

• Happy

Answer explanation

Slight sadness, again, this time expressed in the lips with the slight pulling down of the lip corners. Compare the position of the lips in this picture with the position in photo 1, in which the lips are relaxed. Sadness can be expressed through the lips, the eyelids, or both.

• Slight sadness

• Slight enjoyment

• Fear

• Disgust

• Anger

Answer explanation

Slight enjoyment; any word in that set of words—pleased, OK, feels good-— would be correct. Compare the lips in this picture with the relaxed lips in photo 1. Chapter 9 describes the appearance of enjoyment.

• Slight Sadness

• Slight anger

• Slight Disgust

• Slight Enjoyment

• Happy

Answer explanation

Highly controlled or very slight anger (annoyance)—or determination. You can't be certain when the only clue is a slight pressing and narrowing of the lips. You don't want to miss this clue, even though it is ambiguous, because if you spotted it in real life, you probably would be able to figure out whether it is an anger sign or determination based on when it was shown or what was being said by you or that person. This can be one of the earliest signs of anger, alerting you before matters get irreversible; sometimes this sign occurs before the other person recognizes that he or she is becoming angry

• Slight or highly controlled fear

• Disgust

• Slight or highly controlled sadness

• Suprise

• Slight or highly controlled angry

Answer explanation

Slight or highly controlled fear. The most common mistake is to interpret this as a sign of disgust. The clue to fear is the slightly stretched lips. Sometimes when a person is describing or thinking about a time when he or she was afraid, but not actually feeling it in the moment, the person will show this subtle fear expression.

• Slight or highly controlled fear

• Disgust

• Sadness

• Enjoyment

• Slight anger

Answer explanation

Disgust again, this time shown not in the eyes or nose but in the slightly raised upper lip. Disdain could also describe this expression

• Upset, unhappy, miserables

• Disgust, saddness

• slight anger

• Sligth fear

• Worry

Answer explanation

Upset, unhappy, miserable, perplexed . . . These are all possibilities, all of which refer to the anger theme of having an obstacle in the path of a goal. It might even be highly controlled anger. The lowered brows and tensed lower eyelids signal anger

• Unhappy

• Masked anger

• Enjoyment

• Happy

• Disgust

Answer explanation

A masked expression of anger. The person looks happy because of her smiling lips, but the eyebrows don't fit an enjoyable emotion. This could either be an attempt to mask anger (the emotion shown in the eyebrows) with a happy smile, a blend of anger and enjoyment, or amusement about being perplexed or confounded. The eyebrows in this picture are the same as those shown in photo 8, but the movement is a little stronger.

• Disgust

• Anger

• Fear or suprise

• unhappy

• controlled anger

Answer explanation

Fear or surprise—or just rapt attention. It's hard to be certain when the clue is limited to just the raised upper eyelids. If it is fear or surprise, it would be either slightly felt or highly controlled stronger feelings.