#Skin deep org movie
#Skin deep org skin

If this is right, then it stands to reason that it would be harder for me to discern your mood, as it finds itself expressed on your face, if I am myself unable, for what ever reason, to perform the same expressive dance of my own facial muscles. I understand what you are feeling by acting it out myself, however partially, however implicitly. It is widely suspected that our ability to perceive and understand the emotional states of other people is tied to our spontaneous and usually unconscious tendency to imitate. Even patients showing no cosmetic benefit from treatments, report mood improvement after treatment.īut where there are effects, there are side-effects - and these, too, are just beginning to come into focus. In fact, the possibility that botox treatments can enhance positive emotion and even be used to treat depression is one that has been researched closely, and, it seems, with some success, in the last few years.

#Skin deep org skin

Or rather, our emotional lives are, in a way, skin deep as well.

Cosmetic surgery isn't just skin deep after all. So maybe those millions of woman are on to something. If James is right, if the tension in the face is the emotion and not merely an effect of it, then treating the tension lines in the face may be a way of getting rid of unwanted negative feeling and restoring positive emotion. One of the main applications of botulinum toxin is to paralyze (temporarily) corrugator muscles between the eyes this has the effect of relaxing glabellar frown lines, or in other words, of soothing the furrowed brow. 'Put on a brave face.' 'Keep a stiff upper lip.' 'Turn that frown upside down.' This is folk wisdom and it speaks to the thought that if you do it, you will feel it. James's theory actually makes a lot of intuitive sense. The fear is, in part, an experience of my body's reaction to the threatening creature. Famously, according to James, the fear that I feel when confronted with the bear is not the cause of my flight response it is my flight response - or at least part of it. Part of what it is to feel happy, James argued, is to experience your bodily smile. William James, for example, proposed that it is a mistake to think of emotions as occurring in you, and of their physical and physiological expression as being merely bodily effects. The intuitive idea that emotions are inside us, and that they cause our bodies to give vent to them in different ways, has been subject to scientific scrutiny and criticism for more than a century. (I discussed Inside Out here when it came out.) To feel an emotion, according to this fantasy, is for one or another of these inner characters, now anger, now sadness, for example, to take center stage in our mental theaters.

#Skin deep org movie

In the Pixar movie Inside Out, the emotions are represented as little people living inside of us.

And this sort of cosmetic intervention may have side effects - ones that go beyond the merely cosmetic. There are millions of botulinum toxin (botox) treatments performed, mostly on women, around the world every year.