The Psychology of Resting Bitch Face Syndrome and What You Can Do About It
7th May 2018
Debby Witt referenced this in a comment on Maxine Waters but I think it deserves a prominent position of its own.
Resting Bitch Face, or RBF for short, is an increasingly rife cultural advent describing a facial expression, or lack thereof, conveying a particular mix of irritation, judgment, or boredom
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In 2016, researchers studied the phenomenon using software that detects micro-emotions and found neutral faces identified as having RBF showed four times more contempt than other, genuinely neutral, faces. This showed as a subtle raising of lip corners and tightening around the eyes, which researchers concluded must similarly be registered by the brain. They suggested future research should examine why some people have RBF, what it means in terms of a person’s psychology, and why people react so badly to it.
A lot of people on the Left, especially those affiliated with ‘civil rights’, have this as their default expression. It is not a good look.