# "Body, not eyes, is window on the soul"

**URL:** <https://pheromonetalk.com/t/body-not-eyes-is-window-on-the-soul/57686>\
**Category:** Lounge\
**Created:** [December 30, 2012, 3:10pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/body-not-eyes-is-window-on-the-soul/57686 "2012-12-30T15:10:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![QuietGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/bc8723/32.png) [@QuietGuy](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/QuietGuy)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2012, 3:10pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/body-not-eyes-is-window-on-the-soul/57686/1 "2012-12-30T15:10:01Z")

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> The eyes may not be the window to the soul, according to a study which found we detect strong emotion in others by studying their body language and not their face.

↳Click here to read the full article. ([tollbit-host.com](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/9712619/Body-not-eyes-is-window-on-the-soul.html))

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**Author:** ![SteveO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@SteveO](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/SteveO)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 9:49am UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/body-not-eyes-is-window-on-the-soul/57686/2 "2013-01-07T09:49:24Z")

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Well body language, just like spoken words, takes everything into consideration. It only makes sense 🙂

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**Author:** ![JohnM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/848f3c/32.png) [@JohnM](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/JohnM)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2013, 8:50am UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/body-not-eyes-is-window-on-the-soul/57686/3 "2013-01-12T08:50:08Z")

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If you look somebody deeply in the eyes that creates an emotional reaction in the other person. As a result people consider it a good way to other’s “soul”.

The study in question investigates whether people can read emotions from still pictures.

I don’t think that any study where participants just look at still pictures don’t really capture the way humans read the emotions of other humans in real life.

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**Author:** ![QuietGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/bc8723/32.png) [@QuietGuy](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/QuietGuy)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 6:03pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/body-not-eyes-is-window-on-the-soul/57686/4 "2013-02-14T18:03:04Z")

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> [@Steve](#):
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> Well body language, just like spoken words, takes everything into consideration. It only makes sense 🙂

Communication is definitely conveyed between folks (and other living beings) in a multitude of ways.

I bet they’re even some measure of communication that is even beyond the periphery of what we currently know, but may discover in the future. Oops I sounded kind of cooky on that last part. 😛 🙂

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> If you look somebody deeply in the eyes that creates an emotional reaction in the other person. As a result people consider it a good way to other’s “soul”.
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> The study in question investigates whether people can read emotions from still pictures.
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> I don’t think that any study where participants just look at still pictures don’t really capture the way humans read the emotions of other humans in real life.

I agree the study needed to be for a lack a better word less antiseptic and had real life dudettes and dudes instead of photographic representations of them. (maybe there was a budget concern?)

In order to gauge a more accurate, full bodied and natural response from the test subjects. I so humbly think. 🙂