Smooth Face But Cold Personality

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FACIAL injectables such as Botox might give you a wrinkle-free face, but new research suggests some hefty negative social implications. Compared to women who rely on skin creams to smooth wrinkles, study participants viewed women who used Botox as vain and, worse, cold.

The study, conducted by the University of Toronto, examined social perceptions of women who rely on a variety of anti-ageing techniques, including avoiding the sun, using skin creams, Botox, and facelifts. The results showed that the less a women tried to interfere with ageing naturally, the more positively her personality was viewed by the participants in the study – at least when the participants were told the subject was using Botox or other methods, implying a women might not want to advertise her anti-ageing regimen and aim for the most natural look possible.

It’s interesting to note that the participants were divided into two different age groups, those with an average of 70, with each reading descriptions of women and their anti-ageing techniques and then judging the women’s characters based on the descriptions.

The older participants generally had more positive feelings towards women who used any type of anti-aging techniques than younger ones did, but all of the participants felt more warmth towards the women who didn’t use Botox, believing they were less vain.

Thanks to a previous study, it is known that facial freezers such as Botox may not just impair the expressions of emotions, but also the actual perception of them. Another new study suggests that the wrinkle smoothers might keep you from understanding other people’s feelings, too.

According o an article in USA Today, researchers from the University of Southern California and Duke University compared Botox - and  Restylane-treated patients to a group that got a muscle-amplifying gel while they were trying to identify people’s emotions on computer images.

“People who use Botox are less able to read others’ emotions,” David Neal, a psychology professor at USC, said that people try to understand others’ emotions partly through mimicking their facial expressions, so “if muscular signals from the face to the brain are dampened, you’re less able to read emotions” – AFPRelaxnews