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It's natural to greet friends with a smile and a wave. When you do this, your face and body work together
to show your friends that you're happy to see them. But what happens if your face and body send mixed
messages? Scientists have recently deal with these questions. They found that when a person is looking at your
face, he or she might not believe what he or she sees if your body language doesn't match the feeling that your
face shows.
Studying such mixed messages is nothing new for scientists. Previously, they had found that the tone of a
person's voice can be more important than the words that are spoken. For example, most people tend not to
believe a person who says in a flat voice,"I'm so excited."
When it came to emotions conveyed by facial expressions and body language, most scientists suspected
that the face was more important. To test if this was true, psychologists from the Netherlands and Boston
showed people a number of pictures of isolated faces and isolated bodies (with faces blurred out) that showed
anger or fear. They also showed pictures in which angry or scared faces were paired with angry or scared
bodies.
An angry face had low eyebrows and tight lips. A scared face had high eyebrows and a slightly open
mouth. An angry body had arms back and shoulders at an angle, as if ready to fight. A scared body had arms
forward and shoulders square, as if ready to defend.
Using the pictures, the researchers asked people to quickly press a button that matched the correct facial
emotion: anger or fear. When people looked only at faces, they chose the right emotion about 81 percent of
the time. But when people looked at a mismatched picture-a scared face with an angry body, for example-they
correctly guessed the emotion on the face only 64 percent of the time.
These results told the researchers that mixed signals can confuse people. Even when people pay attention
to the face, body language subtly influences which emotion they read.
So, your body language is important for telling people how you feel. And if you want to be understood, it
helps to avoid sending mixed messages.
1. What's the best title of the passage? ( No more than 5 words)
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2. What question have scientists recently dealt with? ( No more than 15 words)
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3. Please explain the underlined word"confused" in English. ( No more than 5 words)
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4. Why do people tend to look at other's faces to know their real feelings when their body language
doesn't match the feelings their faces show? ( No more than 30 words)
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5. What did most scientists suspect according to the passage? ( No more than 10 words)
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