{"id":10933,"date":"2007-05-14T09:42:51","date_gmt":"2007-05-14T16:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/05\/14\/smiling-faces-smiling-eyes.html"},"modified":"2007-05-14T09:42:51","modified_gmt":"2007-05-14T16:42:51","slug":"smiling_faces_smiling_eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/14\/smiling_faces_smiling_eye.html","title":{"rendered":"Smiling faces, smiling eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study indicates that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/health\/070510_facial_culture.html\" target=\"_blank\">Americans and Japanese read body language and facial expressions&nbsp;differently<\/a> &#8212; in particular, that Americans pay attention to the <em>mouth<\/em>, while Japanese focus on the <em>eyes <\/em>(which, in a culture where outward expression of emotion is sometimes frowned upon, are harder to mask).<\/p>\n<p>Which may explain the distinction in American vs Japanese emoticons.&nbsp; Americans tend to do those little sideways things with the mouth being a key point, while Japanese are horizontal and zero in on the, well,&nbsp;eyes, leaving the mouth more as a spaceholder.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Face:&nbsp; <strong>\ud83d\ude42<\/strong>&nbsp; vs.&nbsp; <strong>^_^<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sad Face:&nbsp; <strong>\ud83d\ude41<\/strong> vs. <strong>;_;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That makes so much sense &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><small><\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/05\/12\/japanese_and_america.html\" target=\"_blank\">BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study indicates that Americans and Japanese read body language and facial expressions&nbsp;differently &#8212; in particular, that Americans pay attention to the mouth, while Japanese focus on the eyes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,6,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-science","category-writing-and-language"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10642,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/12\/04\/the_battle_of_niihau.html","url_meta":{"origin":10933,"position":0},"title":"The Battle of Niihau","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 4-Dec-06 10:54am","format":false,"excerpt":"While folks (justly) condemn the internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII as overreaction and scantly-concealed racism, and note that the service record of Japanese-Americans who served in the armed forces in...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;ZT &amp; PC&quot;","block_context":{"text":"ZT &amp; PC","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/zt-pc"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4095,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/02\/06\/insecurity_2.html","url_meta":{"origin":10933,"position":1},"title":"Insecurity","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 6-Feb-03 11:52am","format":false,"excerpt":"Why is someone like Rep. 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