Research shows that people with low implicit self-worth, or a large mismatch between their conscious and unconscious self-esteem, are quicker to detect subtle facial expressions of anger and disgust.
People with low implicit self-worth are quicker to notice subtle facial cues of anger and disgust
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That is just rational. They have seen those expressions more often.
I could have told you that
Oh, so that’s why I do that
Yep, I can do this amazingly fast.
I wonder about the false positive rate.
What if those people are more prone to *assume* disgust/anger even when there’s none?
How would you know if there is a large mismatch between your conscious and unconscious self-esteem?
Well obviously yeah. It’s kind of a social survival mechanism. We probably got this first in our family home when we had no other way of protecting ourselves other than to* fawn.
Coming from someone who can relate, it’s both a blessing and a curse.
People need to care less what other people think! Especially strangers you will never see again
Probably because we got used to detecting it in the people who criticised us over the course of our formative years, leading to our low implicit self worth? Just a thought.