On 7 Jan 1997, Michael Hucka wrote:
> Twice now I've read in magazines that the two halves of a person's face show
> differences that are supposedly tied to the person's personality. The
> explanation goes like this: each half of the face is controlled by a
> different hemisphere, and since the hemispheres show specializations in
> function, the facial halves show differences related to those
> specializations. Thus, you can supposely estimate some personality traits by
> alternately covering one or the other half of a face, and evaluating the
> result in terms of how happy, sad, etc., that half-face looks.
>> However, I've never seen references to actual scientific studies of this.
>> Does anyone know whether there is any truth to the idea, or is it something
> that was cooked up by some wishful-thinking pop psychologist?
>> --
> Mike Hucka hucka at umich.edu <URL: http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/hucka>
> Ph.D. candidate, computational models of human visual processing, U-M AI Lab
> UNIX admin & programmer/analyst, EECS Dept., University of Michigan
Why don't you check it out for your self. Take any picture an a small
mirror an position the mirror so that the refection makes the other half
into a complete picture. Do you see any difference. Most people do.
Ron Blue