But it's good to be able to choose, rather than have your face talk about you against your will. Sometimes you really do want to let some or all of your feelings show. This doesn't mean you'll always behave like an unfeeling robot. But we can all learn to have more control over what others can read from our faces. And some feelings are easier to hide than others. You can develop your natural talent for hiding your feelingsĪs with any other skill, our natural talent for masking feeling varies. It's not always a good idea to show your true feelings.
This is a very important and useful skill. Everybody knows what's going on with them.īut quite early in childhood we start to learn how to separate what we feel from how we look.
Babies and small children, of course, don't do this. Across the world, and through history, human beings show emotion to a widely varying degree.īut what's really interesting is that humans can hide what they are feeling. It's said that we live in a confessional age, where people show their emotions much more easily and readily than in the past.īut of course how much or how little emotion people show to others depends on the culture they live in. Are there times when you really wish you had a poker face?ĭo you find it hard to conceal your real feelings?
