Jana Hocking: The secret flirting technique used by women
14 Jan, 2021 07:17 PM
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By: Jana Hocking
Ever had a whopping big old-fashioned crush on someone and walked away from a conversation pondering if the person was flirting with you? Or were they just being friendly?
Ahh, the subtle signs of attraction can be a tricky thing to suss out.
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So when I stumbled upon a new study that deciphers the ways women flirt, I thought, great, let s see if I do any of the mentioned things. Listen, I m going to be very honest with you … it s ridiculously tame! Yep, get ready because what this study found as a sure-fire way to know if a girl is flirting with you can be put down to just one pose.
What a smile really is goes far beyond just a mask. While deep learning programs have been trained to discern between spontaneous and forced smiles before, the technology has now been improved to take even more specific aspects of a smile into its robo-mind before coming up with a conclusion.
“We have developed a new technique for identifying the smile phases, which is robust against the noise and allows for continuous analysis of facial videos,” the scientists said in a study recently published in PLOS ONE.
Smiles aren’t just universal symbols of happiness like the iconic yellow emoji. Someone can easily sucker you into believing them with an artificial smile. No matter how much chemical sweetener they put into it, there are ways to tell whether or not you’re looking at a fake. FACS ditches the anatomical and emotional aspects of a smile and sees the face only through the eyes of an observer. Meaning, any facial structures that are beyond the subject’s control and may