Sunday, August 18, 2002

Malcolm Gladwell: The Naked Face From the August 5, 2002 issue of The New Yorker, this article by Malcolm Gladwell asks whether you can read people's thoughts just by looking at them. Ekman recalls the first time he saw Bill Clinton, during the 1992 Democratic primaries. "I was watching his facial expressions, and I said to my wife, 'This is Peck's Bad Boy,' " Ekman says. "This is a guy who wants to be caught with his hand in the cookie jar, and have us love him for it anyway. There was this expression that's one of his favorites. It's that hand-in-the-cookie-jar, love-me-Mommy-because-I'm-a-rascal look. It's A.U. twelve, fifteen, seventeen, and twenty-four, with an eye roll." [Scott Loftesness] 12:49:29 PM