6: Lip Reading in .NET

Making QR in .NET 6: Lip Reading

People who are relaxed, sad, or depressed let their lips hang loose Their lips lack tension Their expression tells you that they ve let go, or, in some cases, given up

When some people feel anxious they chew on something such as a pencil, a finger, or a lip Subconsciously, they re reverting back to the breast, which offers comfort The lip is the easiest object to chew on, because it s right there You don t have to reach for an object and put it between your lips, you don t have to stick your finger in your mouth, you just have to engage your lips with your teeth to find comfort The three main lip chewing gestures associated with anxiety are: Lower lip bite The upper teeth bite down on the lower lip The teeth may rub against the lip, pulling it in and out of the mouth Upper lip bite The lower teeth protrude forward and catch the upper lip The teeth may slide back and forth on the lip, in a sucking like manner Lip to lip bite Both the upper and lower lips come into contact, pulling inwards and resting tightly on the teeth In addition to being a sign of anxiety, chewing your lips is also a gesture showing self-restraint a default mechanism keeping you from saying something that you may later regret People who feel embarrassed may chew on their lips as a way of holding onto themselves, even if it s by the skin of their teeth!

The stiff upper lip is a real facial expression The upper lip muscle tightens to contain emotion People who don t want to express their feelings when they ve been told bad news or are facing adversity tighten their upper lip to keep their emotions contained rather than letting their emotions spill forth Photographs of the disgraced peer and newspaper magnate, Conrad Black, show him leaving court during his fraud trial, with his lips tightly clenched A guilty verdict would mean massive fines and time spent in prison His tension was showing

The concept of maintaining a stiff upper lip, in which sentiments are reined in, dates back to the 1800s and is typical of the English approach to protecting private feelings and keeping emotions private The stiff upper lip comes in handy when you want to maintain your dignity An advantage of the stiff upper lip position is that it can make you look brave It can also make you look suspicious, as if you re concealing hidden information As with all gestures, you need to consider the context before leaping to a conclusion about the meaning of an individual gesture or expression Research conducted by James Gross of Stanford University and Jane Richards of the University of Texas at Austin, suggests that people who fight to conceal their emotions are less able to recall what they see Tim Dalgliesh, clinical psychologist at the Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge, believes that keeping emotions under control is not a bad plan He postulates that it s about keeping the balance between memory and emotion, and reasons that it can be beneficial to suppress your emotions in lieu of memory because giving vent to your upset may be worse So if you re in the middle of your yearly appraisal and your boss is finding nothing good to say about your performance, hold back the outraged shouts and screams You may not recall the specifics of his sentiments and that may be no bad thing if it means you keep your job