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Botox reduces empathy
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Don't believe everything you thinkThe liminal space Veteran
No, Botox injections don’t zap brain cells. (At least not so far as we know.) According to a new study by David T. Neal, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Southern California, and Tanya L. Chartrand, a professor of marketing and psychology at the Duke University Fuqua School of Business, people who have had Botox injections are physically unable to mimic emotions of others. This failure to mirror the faces of those they are watching or talking to robs them of the ability to understand what people are feeling, the study says.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/fashion/botox-reduces-the-ability-to-empathize-study-says.html?_r=0
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Botox=inner and outer monstrosity
Just shine.
Imagine handicapping your ability to communicate through your facial expressions in order to present a mask to others of who you are not.
The study results are skewed by choosing folks who's decisions to take botox already show a low priority in empathizing with others.
I was in Venice recently and the number of ( mostly ) women with identikit frozen faces with all trace of individuality removed was truly tragic.