Pure Sadness

I’ve seen lot of faces, from children, youngsters and adults. I’ve learn from Dr. Paul Ekman METT there several emotion expressions; fear, sadness, anger, disgust, surprise, contempt and happy. There are more, but I’m just going to focus on these seven, because these are the most common and more universal.

So, I’m going to post an image of a panhandler that made me take several minutes staring at him. Why? Because of his emotion expression. Easy to read his facial signal. His leaking a pure sadness expression that you just can’t avoid feeling it too.

500 Year of Celebration between Tailand and Portugal Diplomatic relationship

This photo is very interesting and I nearly don’t need to say much, it’s practically visual. If you don’t believe me, take a look; what do you see? Well, first place, a huge “V” between these two honourable women, which gives us the signal that they are uncomfortable and trying to set their personal space protected. The curious thing on this photo, are not only them, but two more characters that I shall show at the end.

First: Portugal’s First Lady, then Her Royal Highness Princess of Thaildand Maha Chakri Sirindhorn.

So, let’s start with the First Lady, which honestly puzzles me at this particularly picture. She’s deflecting which we’ve seen that, but surprisingly she’s actually leaking signals of feeling some threatening, because she’s hiding her neck with her chin, we can see that because she’s slightly tilting her head downwards signalling defensive, closing her neck, which is revealed by the skin “bumps” under her chin, plus, you can see that she’s emphasising this signal by sliding her shoulders away from her; this doesn’t stop here, the First Lady’s smile is stretched across face in a straight line, teeth concealed; she’s holding her feelings, possibly due to dislike, and this is masking a micro expression of fear, because her eyes are wide openned exposing the eyes’s  sclera.

The Princess of Thailand actually has no defensives attitude that I can see beside the “V” but this deflecting is evolved on the fact that these two ladies are not acquaintance enough due the lacking of socialization. Now, as she’s not showing any defensives payable by facing her body forward to the Portugal’s First Lady, she triggers my curiosity. Her face. Obvious, and everyone has seen that, her smile is also a “social smile”, but her upper lip is too elevated for a smile, in addition, you can see if you insist your vision, that it make a “M”, plus, her lower teeth are shown, which does not happen with “social smiles”. You can see this happening with “snarl similes” and that shows that there is little empathy.

Onto the other two characters. Do you see the gentleman behind the Princess with the Van Dyke beard? To whom is he looking and what signal is he leaking? Do you see the gentleman at the middle of the picture, the friendly old man? What are the differences – in terms of signals – between him and the Van Dyke beard?

Conclusion: I don’t believe that the Portugal’s First Lady was feeling actually threatened / feared from the Princess of Thailand; although I believe that the dialogue between them at moment did in fact set out a fearful /snarl emotions

99º Anniversary of the Portuguese Chamber of Commerce in Brazil

On the left side of this picture, you´ve got Vice-President of Brazil, Michel Temer and on the right side, President of Portugal, Professor Cavaco Silva.  These pictures were taken on the 99º Anniversary of the Portuguese Chamber of Commerce in Brazil. So, done with introduction, I’ve drawn circles and arrows, to help me explain what I am watching.  Portugal and Brazil have been and are seen as very friendly, not only on social encounters, but as politically issue, basing on its historical heritage. This celebration toke place in Brazil to honor the Portugal’s President.

By watching the several pictures and one video, I start to find that there is no friendly signals around them, I see the very opposite. It starts right at the beginning, as I you can see on fig. 01. They both hand shake with a social smile and everybody around them are socially smiling, giving the idea of a wealthy ambience and friendship. But no, as Michel hand shakes’s Cavaco, I can see a HOTSPOT as he does so. I see a stiff-arm hand shake. He is definitely stiffing Professor Cavaco away from him, showing discomfort at the point maintaining Professor Cavaco away from his personal space. I’ve drawn a circle around the Portugal’s President, because after watching several other photos, I’ve understood that this is a nervous/discomfort gesture, and by doing so, his concealing a stress emotion. He does so, on political encounters.

Michel Temer, during the photo session somehow shows several discomfort clues with this event. I really don’t understand if he is discomfort of been at this social event or if he is discomfort with the presence of Professor Cavaco Silva.

 In the second figure, which happens after Micgel’s speech, which I’ve heard and honestly reinforced his non friendly status. Now, when they shake their hands, Michel Temer, stiff his left arm touching Professor Cavaco holding him away, and this gesture intensifies when the Portugal’s President tries a friendly hug. I say tries, because Michel not only stiffs him away, but also has most of his body away from the Professor, during the hug. These clustering negative gestures are not favoring his political status.

On the third photo, once more you can see Michel Temer, has created a gap between him and the honorable couple, President of Portugal and First Lady and he does so by been away from her at a point that his left arm is behind the other personality. Besides you also see a tension on his hands, his left hand is grabbing his right hand, each one by the tip of his fingers. In addition, you can observer that his tighten his lips; concealing an emotion, which his trying to qualifier with a polite smile.

Now, on the forth photo, watch this to men and tell me what do you see?

Ending this post, I’ve add a video, which blow everything between Michel and Cavaco. By reading my post, there’s a sentence that I didn’t understand this s discomfort (Michel Temer) and I’ve bet it’s on the two situations, the event and the Portugal’s President.

If you watch the video, you’ll see that as the Professor Cavaco Silva begins his speech, Michel slightly pulls his sleeve and …bang! He sees the hours. HOTSPOT. Never do this. This man has just leaked out that his not only discomfort, but also bored and doesn’t like been there. At the end of the video, you'lle see the hug I just refered up.

Video of Portugal's President Speech

Conclusion: Despite the tribute given to the Portugal's President, it’s clear like cristal that Michel Temer wasn’t in his better days…actually he was discomfort/anger emotionally being there.