It is possible that people with more labile faces simply become habituated to their facial antics, and that a poker-faced Brit might succumb to an outwardly unseen emotional torrent caused by little more than a twitch of the mouth or a furtive glance. On the other hand, people who inject botox into their cheeks, foreheads and eye creases, thereby anesthetizing their facial muscles, may be dampening their emotional and indeed their cognitive reactions. Ironically, it is often movie actors who do so, yet if there is any truth to the theory of Method acting, according to which you should conjure
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