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remember that although an expressive face – showing amusement, surprise, agreement etc. at the appropriate
moments – may indicate that your target returns your interest,
people do naturally differ in their degree and style of emotional
expression. Women naturally tend to smile more than men, for
example, and to show emotions more clearly in their facial
expressions.
You are also likely to interpret expressions differently
depending on who is making them. Experiments have shown
that people may read the same expression as 'fear' when they
see it on a female face, but as 'anger' when it appears on male
face. There are also cultural and even regional differences in the
amount of emotion people express with their faces. Oriental
people are more likely than Westerners to hide their emotions
under a 'blank' expression or a smile, for example, and
American researchers have found that in the US, Notherners
smile less than people from the South.
If an attractive stranger smiles at you, it could be that he or she
finds you attractive, but he or she could also be an outgoing,
sociable person from a culture or region in which smiling is
commonplace and not particularly meaningful.
These factors must also be taken into account when considering
the effect of your