I sometimes have wondered what it would be like to have one. Besides that, I think that people begin to recognize or fit into social scripts based on less. Example, something like hair color, there are actually scripts for it.
Given a social context people are fairly adept at recognizing types, creating the text, etc. For after all, how can that girl with blond hair and a babyface be a vindictive and manipulative person?
One study "...[o]btained physical measurements and subjective ratings from 80 undergraduates of various facial features for 20 adult male stimulus faces, and these faces were also rated on 5 personality dimensions, physical attractiveness, age, and "babyfacedness" by Ss, to investigate components and consequences of a babyface. The personality dimensions were designated as warm-cold, honest-dishonest, irresponsible-responsible, kind-cruel, and naive-shrewd; physical measurements included narrow-wide nose, full-thin cheeks, close set-wide set eyes, narrow-broad chin, low-high eyebrows, angular-soft face, long-short nose, high-low forehead, round-narrow eyes, small-large eyes, and not attractive-attractive designations.
Results show that large, round eyes, high eyebrows, and a small chin yielded the perception of a babyish facial appearance. A weighted linear composite derived from the measures of eye size and chin width accounted for 57% of the variance in ratings of babyfacedness. Both measured composite and subjective babyfacedness ratings were positively correlated with perceptions of the stimulus person's naivete, honesty, kindness, and warmth. ....."
(Some components and consequences of a babyface (Abstract)
By Berry, Dian S.; McArthur, Leslie Z.
The Journal of Personality & Social Psychology
Vol 48(2), Feb 1985, pp. 312-323)
It seems to me that although there are exceptions, most people live by their scripts. I do not see much wrong with it. I just find it funny, and interesting to think about various types and stereotypes.
2 comments:
Scripts,scripts...we don't need no stinking scripts!
Scripts...that's why you deconstruct them, until you get to what will be your Scripture. Your ultimate script. As you will have a script, inevitably. Just as you just wrote a new script that no scripts are necessary.
But anyway, what hoity-toity language can be used to say that someone's face looks like a lil' baby face, eh? Maybe a person is interested in using words to classify types until they find their type. You can deconstruct me and my scripts. But then I will probably just construct myself again, until that verse that brings the hearse. For that's just the way of this Universe.
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