Blink

      I read Chapter Six: Seven Seconds in the Bronx: the Delicate Art of Mind Reading.  This chapter is all about how we can "read someone's mind" by closely reading their facial expressions.  It goes into the research of two scientists, Silvan Tomkins and Paul Ekman, and how they discovered that there are over ten thousand different facial configurations.  The two of them also researched people from all over the world and discovered that facial expressions remain the same in different cultures; so the faces, like the "choking signal", are basically a universal sign of whichever emotion that particular face would normally represent.  It also talks about a man that the police shot down because he "looked suspicious."  If they had read his face, the police would have realized he was afraid and not hostile.  This connects to the first chapter because it shows how the people looking at the tape of the married couple could tell exactly how they were feeling at a given point in time.
     My family and I frequently babysit a four year old girl by the name of Mya.  She's a really an interesting individual who at times says very weird and funny things.  There was a time a few months ago where she would, completely randomly, ask someone from my family: "You mad?"  We were almost never mad at the time she asked us, so it was really strange.  Perhaps a misreading of our facial expressions?  Perhaps a joke of some sort?  Or just plain randomness?  If this indeed was a misreading of facial expressions, what could she have seen in our faces to think that we were angry?  These are questions that connect to Blink and also need to be answered because it sort of confuses me what she could have been thinking.