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"Body language shared by terrorists"?

Wow, that's... Wow.

Reminds me of the early 1900's eugenicists posters about "facial features shared by criminals".

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Or when Barack and Michelle Obama shared what was described by Fox News as a "terrorist fist-jab" a few years ago...

facepalm

No need for a website to interpret that bit of body language!

Soon, coming to anthropology journals near you: "Facepalm: A universal gesture?"

The one time Betteridge's Law of Headlines fails!

haha! history has been made today :D

"Two almost always over-looked characteristics of terrorists, mass shooters and perpetrators of other violent acts are the chronic displays of either contempt and/or disgust."

Craniometry and phrenology were based on the physical shape of parts of ones noggin and their supposed links to behavior; this is based on habitual behaviors.

Both contempt and disgust are natural emotions that are displayed by most people.

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