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When you were angry as a child, did your mother ever warn you that your face would freeze like that? While that might be a myth, your expressions can influence how easy it is for someone to identify you as a woman or a man. Here, the researchers showed participants computerized androgynous faces with varying levels of angry, happy, or fearful expressions, and asked them to assign a sex to each face. They also showed non-androgynous faces with the same expressions and tested how long it took the participants to identify the face as male or female. Turns out that the features of an angry face, such as downturned mouth and lowered eyebrows, bias people to perceive the face as male; in contrast, features of fearful or happy faces make faces look more feminine. Be sure to check out the creepy computerized androgynous faces after the jump!
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